Abies magnifica 
Native of Oregon and Caltfornza. 
Nat. Order : ConiFERz. Tribe: ABIETINEZ. 
Abies magnifica, Murray in Proceed. R. Hort. Soc. iii. 318 (1863) 5 
Sargent, “ Silva N. Amer.” xii. 137, tt. 618, 619 ; Veitch, 
Manual, ed. ii. 516 (1900). 
A. nobilis, var. robusta, Carriére, “ Traité Conif.” ed. ii. 269 (1867) ; 
A. nobilis, var. magnifica, Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xxli. 189 (1886); Pecea magnifica, Gordon 
“Pinet,” ed. ii. 219 (1875). 
This is so like 4dzes nobilis that at a little distance it is 
very difficult to tell them apart. The only perceptible differ- 
ence is that 4. magnifica has its branches rather more regularly 
placed, in a succession of tables as it were. In the anatomical 
structure of the leaves and in the cones, the difference between 
A. magnifica and A. nobilis is very obvious. It is a native of 
California, where it grows to a height of two hundred feet. 
When placed in perfect shelter and in good soil it isa 
very rapid grower indeed. There is one tree here on the 
mountain side at the edge of an old wood, which was planted 
in 1879, when it was about four feet high: it is now (in 1903) 
sixty-five feet in height, thus giving an annual growth of two 
feet and a half since it was planted. The soil isa deep alluvial 
loam. Several others planted about the same time have not 
attained to nearly the same height. 
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