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16_124 Berkeley to Monterey - Monterey is still a picturesque and interesting town. The Monterey Pine covers pretty near all the country hearabouts. It reproduces freely. The borers make havoc with old tree. Carmel is a new resort town, laid out in the woods of Monterey Pine, not far from Carmel Mission. The worst feature is the sand, which everywhere "comes to the surface" on roads when the surface coating of needles is broken through. Mr. Daniel Rowan, Mr. George Greenleaf and myself start south to Carmel River and Big Sur. -Populus trichocarpa in Carmel River. -Monterey Pine opens its cones in first summer after maturing. |
16_125 Sept 12, 1906 -Going down the coast from Monterey we first meet the Redwood at [Tobie]Dow's place in a gulch (Rock Creek) on the coast. The first few redwoods are scarcely recognizable but looking up the deep narrow cleft of the canyon they fill the very canyon and canyon is so narrow that the branches in the top almost touch the sides of the canyon. There is great diversity in the hills between the sharp clefts of the canyons. One is black with Artemisia californica; another silver with Lupinus albifrons, Silver luping, another white with dry grass, another tawny with Adenostoma fasciculatum, another dull black with Salvia |
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