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Along the canyons & edge of mesas the pine follows outcrops of rock, & goes lower on the limestone than on the lava.
Wagon mound is a series of lava buttes & ridges.  The valleys are covered with short grass & a few Yucca glauca.
There are very few flowers & vegetation looks dry except in irrigated fields or on bottoms.
Got dinner at Las Vegas at 1:30.
    Was sorry to see new farms opening up in the beautiful juniper orchards near Bernal Hill - for dry farming.
    At Ribera the peaks of the Pecos [[strikethrough]] River [[/strikethrough]] Mts. began to show.  Santa Fe Baldy & behind it Pecos Baldy - well capped with snow which extends south over Lake Peak and a little beyond but does not reach to Glorieta Peak.  The cottonwoods ^[([[underlined]] P. angustifolia [[/underlined]])] at Glorieta were only beginning to have out & not as beautiful as usual -
The [[underlined]] Populus fremonti [[/underlined]] in the canyon near Canyoncita were much farther advanced and along the Rio Grande Valley in full leaf.  Boxelders were in blossom at Canyoncita and in fruit & nearly full leaf at Lamy.