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Government road brings you to the foot of the Nisqually 

 glacier. I know of no district where so many species of 

 conifers can be seen together as on that drive : Picea sitchensis, 

 Abies nobilis, A. subalpina and A. amdbilis, Tsuga Albertiana and 

 T. Hookeriana, Pinus monticola, P. ponderosa, and P. contorta, 

 Cupressus nootkatensis, Thuya gigantea, and the omnipresent 

 Douglas, — a round dozen. Where the timber ends the flowers 

 begin, and for miles it is like walking through a garden. I 

 cannot do more than mention a few of the more beautiful, — 

 Veronica CusicMi, Caltha leptosepala — a white marsh-marigold, 

 Polygonum bistortoides and Bodecatheon Jeffreyi in all the wet 

 places, Brythronium montanum, Aster pulchellus, Chimaphylla 

 umbellata — the little shrubby plant misleadingly called locally 

 ' Princes Pine,' Polimonium humile, Lupinus Lyallii, Gentiana 

 callicosa, Lutkea pectinata, Saxifraga Tolmeii, Phlox diffusa, and 

 many more too numerous to mention. The mass of colour 

 was quite bewildering, and over all towered that great extinct 

 volcano, Mount Eainier, close on 15,000 feet high, girt with 

 7000 feet of perpetual snow from which six great glaciers 

 radiate. More than a dozen years ago I rode through those 

 woods, long before railway or road was projected ; the ease 

 with which this wonderful valley can now be reached is not 

 an unmixed advantage to those who, like myself, prefer the 

 discomfort and difficulty of an expedition with pack-horses, 

 but at any rate it gives no excuse to travellers to miss seeing 

 this amazing natural garden. 



[Many lantern-slides were shown in illustration of thia 

 paper.] 



On February 25 Mr W. Wright Smith, M.A., read a paper 

 on " Life in a Tropical Garden," illustrated by lantern-slides. 



