The tall lilies are brought forward most impressively like visitors by the light of your camp-fire and the nearest of the trees with their whorled branches tower above you like larger lilies and the sky seen through the garden-opening seems one vast meadow of white lily stars.
The Two-Leaved Pine The Two-Leaved Pine (Pinus contorta, var.

Murrayana), above the Silver Fir zone, forms the bulk of the alpine forests up to a height of from 8000 to 9500 feet above the sea, growing in beautiful order on moraines scarcely changed as yet by post-glacial weathering.

Compared with the giants of the lower regions this is a small tree, seldom exceeding a height of eighty or ninety feet.

The largest I ever measured was ninety feet high and a little over six feet in diameter.

The average height of mature trees throughout the entire belt is probably not far from fifty or sixty feet with a diameter of two feet.