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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • making the spruce belt one of the greatest scenic attraction* of the park. The outstanding floral display of the Great Smokies is that presented by the rhododendron and kalmia (better known as mountain laurel). 'The rhododendron and kalmia are so thick in some places it is almost impossible to penetrate them for more than a few- feet. A number of persons, unfamiliar with the region, have been lost in these wildernesses, colloquially known as "slicks", ""hells", or "woolyheads"', and have wandered for days over dim and ever-crossing bear-trails searching for some way out. ■Members of the Heath family," said Willa Love Galyon, "tire outstanding in the vegetation of the Smokies. The mountain streams are bordered with rhododendron and laurel A carpet of Bluets 94
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