The mountains of California . 4- Wi^^. ^>^-=- INCKNSE I\ ITS PltlMK. 172 THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFOENIA go to the woods in winter. Tlien it is laden withmyriads of four-sided staminate cones about thesize of wheat grains,— winter wheat,— producinga golden tinge, and forming a noble illustration ofNatm-es immortal vigor and virility. The fertilecones are about three fourths of an inch long, borneon the outside of the plumy branchlets, where theyserve to enrich still more the surj)assing beauty ofthis grand winter-blooming goldenrod. WHITE SILVER FIK{Abies concolor) We come now to t
The mountains of California . 4- Wi^^. ^>^-=- INCKNSE I\ ITS PltlMK. 172 THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFOENIA go to the woods in winter. Tlien it is laden withmyriads of four-sided staminate cones about thesize of wheat grains,— winter wheat,— producinga golden tinge, and forming a noble illustration ofNatm-es immortal vigor and virility. The fertilecones are about three fourths of an inch long, borneon the outside of the plumy branchlets, where theyserve to enrich still more the surj)assing beauty ofthis grand winter-blooming goldenrod. WHITE SILVER FIK{Abies concolor) We come now to the most regularly planted of all the main forestbelts, composed almostexclusively of twonoble firs—A. concolorand A. magnifica. It ex-tends with no markedinterruption for 450miles, at an elevationof from 5000 to nearly9000 feet above the its youth A. con-color is a charminglysymmetrical tree withbranches regularlywhorled in level col-lars around its whit-ish-gray axis, whichterminates in a strong,
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