Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (1855)
United States. War Department, author · Washington [D.C.] : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer · leaf 375
will be seen that the silver fir forms a dense and slender spire of dark-green foliage, which, on the older trees, is rather too formal to he pleasing, unless grouped with other species, with which its form and the color of the foliage may contrast agreeably. In the Cascade mountains I often saw it… … Fig. 19. Cone, branch, leaves, scales, seeds, and male flower of A. Williamsonii, natural size. Fig. 19a, 6. View of side and base of old cone of A. Williamsonii , natural size. Description.— A. tree of large size and alpine habit ; foliage somewhat fasciculate like that of the larches ; leaves…
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