Our national parks . a) is one of the largest and mostbeautiful of the Western oaks, attaining under fa-vorable conditions a height of sixty to a hundredfeet, with a trunk three to seven feet in diameter,wide-spreading picturesque branches, and smoothlively green f oHage handsomely scalloped, purplein the spring, yellow and red in autumn. Itgrows best in sunny open groves on ground cov-ered with ferns, chokecherry, brier rose, rubus,mints, goldenrods, etc. Few, if any, of the fa-mous oak groves of Europe, however extensive,surpass these in the size and strength and bright,airy beauty of the tr
Our national parks . a) is one of the largest and mostbeautiful of the Western oaks, attaining under fa-vorable conditions a height of sixty to a hundredfeet, with a trunk three to seven feet in diameter,wide-spreading picturesque branches, and smoothlively green f oHage handsomely scalloped, purplein the spring, yellow and red in autumn. Itgrows best in sunny open groves on ground cov-ered with ferns, chokecherry, brier rose, rubus,mints, goldenrods, etc. Few, if any, of the fa-mous oak groves of Europe, however extensive,surpass these in the size and strength and bright,airy beauty of the trees, the color and fragranceof the vegetation beneath them, the quality ofthe light that fills their leafy arches, and in thegrandeur of the surrounding scenery. The fin-est grove in the park is in one of the little Yo-semite valleys of the Tuolumne Canon, a fewmiles above Hetch-Hetchy. The mountain live-oak, or goldcup oak [Quer-cus chrysolepis), forms extensive groves onearthquake and avalanche taluses and terraces. THE FORESTS OF THE YOSEMITE PARK 129 in canons and Yosemite valleys, from aboutthree to five thousand feet above the sea. Intough, sturdy, unwedgeable strength this is theoak of oaks. In general appearance it resemblesthe great live-oak of the Southern states. Ithas pale gray bark, a short, uneven, heavily but-tressed trunk which usually divides a few feetabove the ground into strong wide-reachinglimbs, forming noble arches, and ending in an in-tricate maze of small branches and sprays, theouter ones frequently drooping in long tresses tothe ground like those of the weeping willow,covered with small simple polished leaves, mak-ing a canopy broad and bossy, on which the sun-shine falls in glorious brightness. The acorncups are shallow, thick-walled, and covered withyellow fuzzy dust. The flowers appear in Mayand June with a profusion of pollened tresses,followed by the bronze-colored young leaves. No tree in the park is a better measure of alti-tude. In canons, at
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