l60 RASPBERRIES JULY TO OCTOBER. 
blossom in their lower valleys and canons in 
May and June. These months had but just 
reached that altitude. It was delightful sliding 
down those long snow-banks with the August 
sun overhead, and June’s wealth of verdure and 
flowers before one’s eyes ! 
This tardy arrival of the months to the high 
altitudes is very convenient for those who enjoy 
a long berry season. To illustrate : The in- 
habitants of Colorado the blest may begin pick- 
ing red raspberries in July, and, by changing 
their elevation, continue the pastime until Octo- 
ber. The very late ones grow on bushes hardly 
six inches high, just below timber-line, and may 
have to be gathered in a snow-storm if picked 
at all. 
Stern and forbidding as the region above them 
may appear, it is not without life and attractions. 
Ptarmigans, little chief hares, and marmots, 
frequent the rocks, and its immediate scenery, 
and the landscapes visible from its peaks, cannot 
be rivalled. 
Locating their camp among the dwarfed ever- 
greens, a mile or more from the top of the range, 
Mrs. Maxwell and her collecting party proceeded, 
one morning, to climb to its summit — the crest 
of a lofty peak overlooking the Middle Park. 
As they made the ascent, now crossing snow- 
fields, dusty and crystaline with age and ex- 
