Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — Assumes Every Hue. [ARTICLE]

Assumes Every Hue.

One of the most striking of the arboreal growths of California is the madrona tree, the bark of which is as changeable as the oolors of a kaleidoscope. Not like the red-wood giant does it rear its head high above the other trees of the forest, although when having full growing room it attains a great size, but its bark is constantly chancing in color, at times gi\ing out all the hues of the rainbow. The young trees are most beautiful, and even the gnarled monarchs of time, by shedding heir bark, assume all the beauty and splendor of the younger species.