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3_22 Inverness, February 15, 1900 Before reaching and after leaving Taylorville or Camp Taylor much Laurel is to be seen from the train. Much has been cut out apparently but it evidently has a great disposition to sprout from the base being hard to kill I should imagine and suggesting in its sprouting the redwood, the small circles of which one sees all through Marin. The laurel very frequently has tremendously large bases with many trunks arising from it. One circle has 21, the base 28 feet, 3 inches total circumference. The original central trunk all rotted away. |
3_23 Alder - Alnus oregona = rubra The alder here gives most pleasing variation to the scenery. Green hillsides, green with the thicket of evergreen trees and shrubs - leafless buckeyes [about] the brow of the hill, bare alders filling the bottoms of the canyons along the streams and in low wet mouths of the canons expanding from single file to a little grove of trees. Here and there they are common on a moist hillside, but there is one large grove between Inverness post office and Inverness school. Across the creek |
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