How did writer J. Smeaton Chase describe the Joshua tree?

• “One can scarcely find a term of ugliness to that is not apt to describe this plant.”
  "One can scarcely find a term of ugliness that is not apt for this plant," he wrote. If you ask visitors to Joshua Tree National Park, they are likely to say the trees are extremely ugly or uniquely beautiful.
• “There is no existing term of ugliness that is apt to describe this plant.”
  "One can scarcely find a term of ugliness that is not apt for this plant," he wrote. If you ask visitors to Joshua Tree National Park, they are likely to say the trees are extremely ugly or uniquely beautiful.
• “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, however no beholder can find beauty in this plant.”
  "One can scarcely find a term of ugliness that is not apt for this plant," he wrote. If you ask visitors to Joshua Tree National Park, they are likely to say the trees are extremely ugly or uniquely beautiful.