A 'Thousand- Mile Walk. 
ite Family of the plain. It remains in flower un- 
til November, uniting with an eriogonum that 
continues the floral chain across December to 
the spring plants of January. Thus, although 
nearly all of the year’s plant-life is crowded into 
February, March, and April, the flower circle 
around the Twenty Hill Hollow is never broken. 
The Hollow may easily be visited by tourists 
en route for Yosemite, as it is distant only about 
six miles from Snelling’s. It is at all seasons in- 
teresting to the naturalist; but it has little that 
would interest the majority of tourists earlier 
than January or later than April. If you wish to 
see how much of light, life, and joy can be got 
into a January, go to this blessed Hollow. If 
you wish to see a plant-resurrection, — myriads 
of bright flowers crowding from the ground, 
like souls to a judgment, — go to Twenty Hills 
in February. If you are traveling for health, 
play truant to doctors and friends, fill your 
pocket with biscuits, and hide in the hills of 
the Hollow, lave in its waters, tan in its golds, 
bask in its flower-shine, and your baptisms will 
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