Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 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 ae changeable as the colors 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 chan ing in i olor, at times giving oul all the hues of the rainbow. The young trees are most beautiful, and even the gnarled munarehs of time, by shedding their bark, assume all the beauty and splendor of the younger speoiee.