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In size, these two Silver Firs are about equal, the magnifica perhaps a little the taller. Specimens from 200 to 250 feet high are not rare on well-ground moraine soil, at an elevation of from 7500 to 8500 feet above sea-level. The largest that I measured stands back three miles from the brink of the north wall of Yosemite Valley.
In a certain mystic sense, which some in every age of the world have understood, he, too, is the creator; himself actually a participator in the creative function. And by such a philosophy, Bruno assures us, it was his experience that the soul is greatly expanded: con questa filosofia l'anima mi s'aggrandisce: mi se magnifica l'intelletto!
We come now to the most regularly planted and most clearly defined of the main forest belts, composed almost exclusively of two Silver Firs Abies concolor and Abies magnifica extending with but little interruption 450 miles at an elevation of from 5000 to 9000 feet above the sea.
He found the wily warrior engaged in delectable conversation with Mrs. O'Brien. "The Secretary of War is waitin' for us," said Kelley. The General tore himself away with an effort. "Ay, senor," he said, with a sigh, "duty makes a call. But, senor, the senoras of your Estados Unidos how beauties! For exemplification, take you la Madame O'Brien que magnifica!
She, as mother of the Duchess of Ferrara, was still able to exert some influence; she was living a respectable life, in comfortable circumstances, as a woman of position, and was described as la magnifica e nobile Madanna Vannozza. She also kept up her relations with such of the cardinals as were Spaniards and relatives of Alexander VI, or who were his creatures. She survived most of them.
Il Ambassiatore de la Majesta Serenissima d'Ingilterra, amico de vostra Signoria magnifica, piacendo lei. The same in English.
And along with this quality, the mira elegantia of Quintilian, his oratory had some kind of severe magnificence which we can partly guess at from his extant writings magnifica et generosa, says Cicero; facultas dicendi imperatoria is the phrase of a later and able critic. Of Caesar's other lost writings little need be said.
W. frutescens magnifica is an improved form of the species. W. JAPONICA. Japan. A bush-like species bearing white flowers, but it is rarely seen in cultivation. It is, however, quite hardy, and succeeds well in the bush state at Kew. W. MULTIJUGA. Japan, 1874. Resembles somewhat our commonly-cultivated species, and has pale purple flowers arranged in long racemes.
Of the conifers the species are as follows: yellow pine, pinus ponderosa; Jeffrey pine, pinus jeffreyi; sugar pine, pinus lambertiana; lodge-pole pine, pinus murrayana; white pine, pinus monticola; digger pine, pinus sabiniana; white-bark pine, pinus albicaulis; red fir, pseudotsuga taxifolia; white fir, abies concolor; Shasta fir, abies magnifica; patton hemlock or alpine spruce, tsuga pattoniana; incense cedar, libocedrus decurrens; western juniper, juniperus occidentalis; yew, taxus brevifolia.
The fertile cones are about three fourths of an inch long, borne on the outside of the plumy branchlets, where they serve to enrich still more the surpassing beauty of this grand winter-blooming goldenrod. We come now to the most regularly planted of all the main forest belts, composed almost exclusively of two noble firs A. concolor and A. magnifica.