Our national parks . spread, and travelers from all theworld would make haste to the show. Eagerinquiries are made for the bloomtime of rhodo-dendron-covered mountains and for the bloom-time of Yosemite streams, that they may be en-joyed in their prime; but the far grander outburstof tree bloom covering a thousand mountains —who inquires about that? That the pistillateflowers of the pines and firs should escape theeyes of careless lookers is less to be wonderedat, since they mostly grow aloft on the topmostbranches, and can hardly be seen from the footof the trees. Yet even these make a magnif
Our national parks . spread, and travelers from all theworld would make haste to the show. Eagerinquiries are made for the bloomtime of rhodo-dendron-covered mountains and for the bloom-time of Yosemite streams, that they may be en-joyed in their prime; but the far grander outburstof tree bloom covering a thousand mountains —who inquires about that? That the pistillateflowers of the pines and firs should escape theeyes of careless lookers is less to be wonderedat, since they mostly grow aloft on the topmostbranches, and can hardly be seen from the footof the trees. Yet even these make a magnificentshow from the top of an overlooking ridge whenthe sunbeams are pouring through them. Butthe far more numerous staminate flowers of thepines in large rosy clusters, and those of thesilver firs in countless thousands on the underside of the branches, cannot be hid, stand whereyou may. The mountain hemlock also is glori-ously colored with a profusion of lovely blueand purple flowers, a spectacle to gods and
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