FOREST ADORNMENT 
be separated here and there. Indeed, 
it is often most interesting when inter- 
rupted by large granite boulders and 
jumbles of rocks, with the clean gray 
shade of which it forms a fine contrast 
on a clear morning. 
If we look still farther up toward 
some higher slopes, miles away, we 
shall see only a uniform and contin- 
uous stretch of low brush that appears 
at that great distance hardly otherwise 
than a green pasture clothing the bar- 
ren mountain. As we walk toward it 
the bluish-green changes to a bronze- 
green, and then suddenly we recognize 
the broad sweep of chemisal, with a 
few scattered scrubby oaks and moun- 
tain mahogany in between. 
In the account of forest embellish- 
ment should be included those hum- 
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