Bee-Pastures of California In Two Parts.:-II''
THE BEE-PASTURES OF CALIFORNIA. IN TWO PARTS: II. IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.—WHITE SAGE. Regarding Mount Shasta comprehensively torrid plain deep into the. cold azure, we find from a bee point of view, encircled by its the first five thousand feet from the. summit many climates, and sweeping aloft f...
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ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmb-1194 2023-10-01T03:54:24+02:00 Bee-Pastures of California In Two Parts.:-II'' Muir, John 1882-07-01T07:52:58Z application/pdf https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/195 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmb/article/1194/viewcontent/146.pdf eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/195 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmb/article/1194/viewcontent/146.pdf John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes, 1986 (Muir articles 1866-1986) Environmentalist naturalist travel conservation national parks John Muir history pamphlets journal articles speeches writing annotation text 1882 ftunivpacificmsl 2023-09-02T22:38:11Z THE BEE-PASTURES OF CALIFORNIA. IN TWO PARTS: II. IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.—WHITE SAGE. Regarding Mount Shasta comprehensively torrid plain deep into the. cold azure, we find from a bee point of view, encircled by its the first five thousand feet from the. summit many climates, and sweeping aloft from the pretty generally snow-clad, and therefore are about as flowerless 3tA honeyless as the sea. The Jc of this arctic region is I jpniled by a belt of naked la'va swastiring about a thousand feet 9 vertical breadth. Beautiful Sdiens enliven the faces of the efiffs with their bright colors, vtA in some of the warmer aooks of the rocks there are a fc-w tufts of alpine daisies, wall- Sowers, and pentstemons; but, notwithstanding these bloom freely in the late summer, the zone as a whole is jlmost as honeyless as the icy summit, and its lower edge suy be taken as the superior limit of the honey-line. Immediately below this comes the forest zone, covered *ith a rich growth of conifers, chiefly silver firs, rich in Jwllen and honey-dew, and diversified with countless gar- ji openings, many of them less than a hundred yards *ss. Next, in orderly succession, comes the grand bee- ine. Its area far surpasses that of the icy summit and w the other zones combined, for it goes sweeping jesttcally around the entire mountain, with a breadth w six or'seven miles and a circumference of nearly a hundred miles. .Shasta, as we have already suggested, is a fire-mount- airi, created by a succession of eruptions of ashes and Molten lava, which, flowing over the lips of its several craters, grew outward and upward like the trunk of a knotty exogenous tree. Then followed a strange contrast. e glacial winter came on, loading the cooling mountain *Mh ice which flowed slowly outward in every direction, radiating from the summit in the form of One vast conical l BEE-RANCH ON A SPUR OF THE SAN GABRIEL RANGE. CARDINAL FLOWER. WILD BUCKWHEAT.—A BEE-RANCH IN THE WILDERNESS. glacier—-a down-crawling mantle of ice upon a fountain of smoldering ... Text Arctic University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons Arctic Gar’ ENVELOPE(162.014,162.014,57.140,57.140) |
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THE BEE-PASTURES OF CALIFORNIA. IN TWO PARTS: II. IN THE SAN GABRIEL VALLEY.—WHITE SAGE. Regarding Mount Shasta comprehensively torrid plain deep into the. cold azure, we find from a bee point of view, encircled by its the first five thousand feet from the. summit many climates, and sweeping aloft from the pretty generally snow-clad, and therefore are about as flowerless 3tA honeyless as the sea. The Jc of this arctic region is I jpniled by a belt of naked la'va swastiring about a thousand feet 9 vertical breadth. Beautiful Sdiens enliven the faces of the efiffs with their bright colors, vtA in some of the warmer aooks of the rocks there are a fc-w tufts of alpine daisies, wall- Sowers, and pentstemons; but, notwithstanding these bloom freely in the late summer, the zone as a whole is jlmost as honeyless as the icy summit, and its lower edge suy be taken as the superior limit of the honey-line. Immediately below this comes the forest zone, covered *ith a rich growth of conifers, chiefly silver firs, rich in Jwllen and honey-dew, and diversified with countless gar- ji openings, many of them less than a hundred yards *ss. Next, in orderly succession, comes the grand bee- ine. Its area far surpasses that of the icy summit and w the other zones combined, for it goes sweeping jesttcally around the entire mountain, with a breadth w six or'seven miles and a circumference of nearly a hundred miles. .Shasta, as we have already suggested, is a fire-mount- airi, created by a succession of eruptions of ashes and Molten lava, which, flowing over the lips of its several craters, grew outward and upward like the trunk of a knotty exogenous tree. Then followed a strange contrast. e glacial winter came on, loading the cooling mountain *Mh ice which flowed slowly outward in every direction, radiating from the summit in the form of One vast conical l BEE-RANCH ON A SPUR OF THE SAN GABRIEL RANGE. CARDINAL FLOWER. WILD BUCKWHEAT.—A BEE-RANCH IN THE WILDERNESS. glacier—-a down-crawling mantle of ice upon a fountain of smoldering ... |
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