orgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their
praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed.

Dotting the prairies and fringing the edges of the great evergreen
forests we find a considerable number of hardwood trees, such as the
oak, maple, ash, alder, laurel, madrone, flowering dogwood, wild cherry,
and wild apple. The white oak (Quercus Garryana) is the most important
of the Oregon oaks as a timber tree, but not nearly so beautiful as
Kellogg's oak (Q. Kelloggii). The former is found mostly along the
Columbia River, particularly about the Dalles, and a considerable
quantity of useful lumber is made from it and sold, sometimes for
eastern white oak, to wagon makers. Kellogg's oak is a magnificent tree
and does much for the picturesque beauty of the Umpqua and Rogue River
Valleys where it abounds. It is also found in all the Yosemite valleys
of the Sierra, and its acorns form an important part of the food of
the Digger Indians. In the Siskiyou Mountains there is a live oak (Q.
chrysolepis), wide-spreading and very picturesque in form, but not very
common. It extends southward along the western flank of the Sierra and
is there more abundant and much larger than in Oregon, oftentimes five
to eight feet in diameter.

The maples are the same as those in Washington, already described, but
I have not seen any maple groves here equal in extent or in the size of
the trees to those on the Snoqualmie River.

The Oregon ash is now rare along the stream banks of western Oregon, and
it grows to a good size and furnishes lumber that is for some purposes
equal to the white ash of the Western States.

Nuttall's flowering dogwood makes a brave display with its wealth of
show involucres in the spring along cool streams. Specimens of the
flowers may be found measuring eight inches in diameter.

The wild cherry (Prunus emarginata, var. mollis) is a small, handsome
tree seldom more than a foot in diameter at the base. It makes valuable
lumber and its black, astringent fruit furnishes a rich resource as
food for the birds. A smaller form is common in the Sierra, the fruit of
which is eagerly eaten by the Indians and hunters in time of need.

The wild apple (Pyrus rivularis) is a fine, hearty, handsome little tree
that grows well in rich, cool soil along streams and on the edges
of beaver meadows from California through Oregon and Washington to
southeastern Alaska. In Oregon it forms dense, tangled thicke