The mountains of California . h the Two-leaved Pines in the same scat-tered growth, it begins to show its character, andat an elevation of about 10,000 feet attains its no-blest development near the middle of the range,tossing its tough arms in the frosty air, welcomingstorms and feeding on them, and reaching the grandold age of 1000 years. JUNIPEK, OE BED CEDAE(Jimiperus occidentalis) The Juniper is preeminently a rock tree, occupy-ing the baldest domes and pavements, where thereis scarcely a handful of soil, at a height of from7000 to 9500 feet. In such situations the trunk isfrequently over
The mountains of California . h the Two-leaved Pines in the same scat-tered growth, it begins to show its character, andat an elevation of about 10,000 feet attains its no-blest development near the middle of the range,tossing its tough arms in the frosty air, welcomingstorms and feeding on them, and reaching the grandold age of 1000 years. JUNIPEK, OE BED CEDAE(Jimiperus occidentalis) The Juniper is preeminently a rock tree, occupy-ing the baldest domes and pavements, where thereis scarcely a handful of soil, at a height of from7000 to 9500 feet. In such situations the trunk isfrequently over eight feet in diameter, and notmuch more in height. The top is almost alwaysdead in old trees, and great stubborn limbs push THE FOEESTS 205 out horizoiitallv lliut are mostly broken and bareat the ends, but densely covered and embeddedhere and there with bossy mounds of gray are mere weathered stumps, as broad as long,decorated with a few leafy sprays, reminding oneof the crumbling towers of some ancient castle. JUNIPER, OR KED CEDAR. scantily diai>e(l wifli ivy. Only ujion the lieadwatcis of tlie Carson liave I found this sjxMies «S-tablisli((l on good nioiaiiie soil. Here it flouiislieswilli llii Silvei and l\vo-lia\T(l Iines, in gicalbeauty and Inxuiiance, atlaiiiing a liciglit of IVoinforty to sixty feet, and nianiftsling bnt little ofthat rocky angularity so characteristic a feature 206 THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA througliont the greater portion of its range. Twoof the largest, growing at the head of Hoj^e Val-ley, measured twenty-nine feet three inches andtwenty-five feet six inches in circumference, re-spectively, four feet from the ground. The barkis of a bright cinnamon color, and, in thriftytrees, beautifully braided and reticulated, flakingoff in thin, lustrous ribbons that are sometimesused by Indians for tent-matting. Its fine colorand odd picturesqueness always catch an artistseye, but to me the Juniper seems a singularly dulland taciturn
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