My First Summer 



is blowing that most of them are shaken 

 free to fly. 



The other species, Abies concolor, attains 

 nearly as great a height and thickness as the 

 magnifica, but the branches do not form 

 such regular whorls, nor are they so exactly 

 pinnated or richly leaf-clad. Instead of 

 growing all around the branchlets, the 

 leaves are mostly arranged in two flat hori- 

 zontal rows. The cones and seeds are like 

 those of the magnified in form but less than 

 half as large. The bark of the magnified is 

 reddish purple and closely furrowed, that 

 of the concolor gray and widely furrowed. 

 A noble pair. 



At Crane Flat w r e climbed a thousand 

 feet or more in a distance of about two 

 miles, the forest growing more dense and 

 the silvery magnifica fir forming a still 

 greater portion of the w r hole. Crane Flat 

 is a meadow with a wide sandy border lying 

 on the top of the divide. It is often visited 

 by blue cranes to rest and feed on their long 



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