A New World of Beauty

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Excerpt from A New World of Beauty: A Description of Rocky Mountain Evergreens, Trees of Marvelous TintsAges ago rock from the western mountains were carried eastward in the great ice ships, and enough to build a city has been landed on the prai rie a few miles from where I write. There is another eastward movement now from the Rockies, which is bearing the hardiest and most beautiful coni fers on earth and distributing them over the plains and scattering them over the land to the Atlantic.Nowhere in the world, do you find trees of such marvelous beauty as in the Rockies. They are not trees to be petted. They are children of the storms, very hardy and adapted to a wide range of soil and climate. What is the cause of that exquisite sheen which gives them such attractiveness? Probably the high altitude, and the shelter of the deep gorges. A tree stand ing out in the full sunlight, and in the full sweep of the winds. Seldom has these silver robes. You find the richest colors in the best sheltered places, where the evolution of beauty has been going on for ages. And those gar ments of more than courtly 'splendor have descended from parent to child.Merit is sure to win. The horticulturist now searches the high eleva tions and dark canyons, not for silver mines, but for the silver which min gles with the green in such harmonious blending. Trees are in¿uenced by their environment. The red cedar of the Platte river. And the silver cedar of the Rockies, are fit st cousins. One has been buffeted by the storms and burned by the droughts, the other has had the shelter of ages. And time to attend to her garments - like a delicate white child reared in a city home the other is like a squaw, tanned and bronzed by long exposure.With care this rich sheen can be preserved. A'nd even enhanced. I have seen finer trees in the nurseries and lawns of the east, than I have. In their mountain habitat, unless we except the Concolor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.