. Alpine flowers for English gardens. Mountain plants; Flower gardening. 146 ALPINE FLOWERS. Part I. On the ver)- summit of the Sierra Nevada the vegetation is not luxuriant; there, as elsewhere on high mountain chains, is the frost that burns and the wind that shears. When you see a solitary pine that has been bold enough to plant itself among the boulders and rocks of the high summits, it is usually so contorted that it looks as if in- habited by demons; while here one has succumbed to the enemy, and a few blanched branches stick from a .Vluuiuaiii Woods of California. dead, barkless
. Alpine flowers for English gardens. Mountain plants; Flower gardening. 146 ALPINE FLOWERS. Part I. On the ver)- summit of the Sierra Nevada the vegetation is not luxuriant; there, as elsewhere on high mountain chains, is the frost that burns and the wind that shears. When you see a solitary pine that has been bold enough to plant itself among the boulders and rocks of the high summits, it is usually so contorted that it looks as if in- habited by demons; while here one has succumbed to the enemy, and a few blanched branches stick from a .Vluuiuaiii Woods of California. dead, barkless base, lapped over the earthless granite. But go a little lower down the mountain, and most probably you will find a noble group of Piceas, startling from the size and height of their trunks, though looking much tortured about the head by the winds that surge across these summits—the mast-heads of the continent. Snow falls early and deep on the Sierras, and the stems of the higher trees are often covered with it to a depth of from six to twenty-five feet. Near the railway, and near frequented places, thick stumps of pines, six to fifteen feet high, may be noticed; these are the trees which have been cut down when the snow was high and thick and firm about the lower part of their stems. But if the nights are bitterly cold, the sun is strong in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, W. (William), 1838-1935; Bailey, William Whitman, 1843-1914. London : Murray
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