FOREST TREES OF THE ALPS OF EUROPE. 



FOREST TREES OF THE ALPS 

 OF EUROPE. 



After our own native trees — the best of all 

 for use and beauty — should come first in our 

 thoughts those trees of cool and neighbouring 

 regions which thrive in a temperature some- 



Alps of Europe. Though their greatest areas 

 are fiercely arid, there are immense forests on 

 their flanks and in the valleys, and even far up 

 the mountain slopes ; and the floor of these 

 forests are strewn with flowers and delicate 

 trailing shrubs, Wild Strawberries, and even 

 Gentians. But where the trees abound, as they 



A PINE FOREST ON THE ALPS OF EUROPE. 



thing like that of our own country. First often do, they take the palm for beauty and in- 

 among these are the trees of the European j terest to tree lovers, and this beauty can never 

 Alps, not merely those of the north, but also of | be lost to us because of the vastness of those 

 the slopes that go down towards the great sea, crowded areas. On the flanks of the Tyrolese 



crested by the Cedar as well as the Pine. Every 

 great alpine range in the world has much forest 

 beauty, and certainly there isnolack of it in the 



valleys and many other alpine regions, the walls 

 of rock are so steep and high, and cold, that no 

 other use could ever be made of them. There 



