Archive image from page 10 of The cypress of Monterey . The cypress of Monterey : an historical sketch cypressofmontere00gupp Year: 1925 The Cypress of Monterey An Historical Sketch $> HE wonderful old trees of the Mon- terey Cypress groves have their own power of silent speech. They are full of voices that challenge our knowl- edge and draw from us many a ques- tion—these wrestling survivors of a vanished for- est, clinging to the wave-beaten rocks of the Monterey coast. Are they the remnant of a forest at one time extending farther inland, or are they the last of an army of trees that h
Archive image from page 10 of The cypress of Monterey . The cypress of Monterey : an historical sketch cypressofmontere00gupp Year: 1925 The Cypress of Monterey An Historical Sketch $> HE wonderful old trees of the Mon- terey Cypress groves have their own power of silent speech. They are full of voices that challenge our knowl- edge and draw from us many a ques- tion—these wrestling survivors of a vanished for- est, clinging to the wave-beaten rocks of the Monterey coast. Are they the remnant of a forest at one time extending farther inland, or are they the last of an army of trees that has battled for ages with the sea? The readiness with which they yield to cultivation the world over suggests that then ancestors had a wider inland range. But these native trees themselves have all the appearance of battered heroes that are holding with a primi- tive force to their last few yards of earth; and as
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