roic realm. The trees grow to enormous size and are distributed and grouped with crags, meadows, terraces, ca?ons-all in unmatched wild, artistic charm and sublimity. Though some a

rdening extends over the g

Park. Other characteristic trees are the sugar pine, king of the pines; the Douglas sp

Merced and Tuolumne groves are near the western boundary of the Park, several miles north of El Portal Station, while the Mariposa Grove is in the southw

has a diameter of nearly thirty feet and a height of two hundred and four feet. Evidently it was once much taller; its top probably was wrecked by lightning. Through the Wawona tre

d a juniper; two silver firs; yellow, lodge-pole, and six other species of pines. Among the broad-leafe

rly two feet. The yellow pine rivals the sugar pine in size and grows from four to ten feet in diameter and from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and tw

plains change into a brown and sere desert; ... and have reached at length the westward slopes of the high mountain barrier which, refreshed by