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height, and is 93 feet 7 inches in circnraference at its base, or over 30 

 feet in diameter, and 68 feet 3 inches at 11 feet above the ground. 

 As the tree has suffered from burning, these measurements scarcely 

 do justice to its true growth. Half way up there is a branch 9 feet in 

 diameter, which itself would make a very respectable tree. The trees 

 are all named after great men, such as Longfellow, Abraham Lincoln, 

 and President Grant, The " Grizzly Giant " is so named because it 

 has passed its prinie, and shows all the marks of age, and endurance 

 of time and rough weather. Another large tree has been blown over 

 from its roots, which is known as the " Fallen JSIonarch." One very 

 old tree has fallen, and has had the decayed wood of its central 

 part burned out, and which now lies like a great tunnel, so high 

 that a man on horseback can ride through a portion of it. 



This gigantic Californian tree has only one rival, and that is in 

 Australia and Tasmania. It is known as the E acahj pt ma m tjtjdnlum ^ 

 which attains to a height of 400 leet. It is even said to reach 480 

 feet, thus exceeding by 150 feet the highest specimen of the St'qiioia 

 (]iljantea. But the largest of these Australian giants does not exceed 

 a diameter of 81 feet. There is, however, another big tree, which 

 far exceeds the sequoia in thickness of stem ; it is the Baohah or 

 Adansonia digitata ; but this species, although swelling out at the 

 base, is of a low growth, never exceeding 70 feet in height. If both 

 the thickness and height of the great trees of the Pacific slope be 

 taken into consideration, they stand, as yet, without a know^n rival. 

 A gentleman who had lately returned from a visit to California was 

 once asked how the great trees were to be described, from the want 

 of anything approaching them in size in the Old World. He had 

 recourse to selecting two trees about thirty feet apart, and then he 

 said, "Look here, one of the great trees of California fdls up a space 

 as large as that." It is the only way to realize on an English lawn 

 the size of these giants of the botanical creation. W. IL 



A Weeping Hemlock Spruce. — A weeping form of this is described in the 

 Tatral Xt-i'^ Yorl-er. The habit is so decidedly weeping, and the leaves and 

 branches so thick, that it was at once suggested to graft it upon high stocks 

 about the same, for instance, as the Kilmarnock weeping willow is worked 

 upon a stock of which it is a variety, viz., SaJic caprea. But the great 

 expectations of securing an evergreen tree-form of unique and incomparable 

 grace, thus reasonably entertained, have not been fulfilled. Mr. iSamuel 

 Parsons, of Flushing, writes as follows : — " We graft it readily upon high 

 stocks in the nursery, but it does not tlirive as well ; the naked stem cracks 

 and suflfers, and the massive foliage, like most evergreens perched on high 

 stems, is too heavy for grace and proportion, and is beaten and tossed by the 

 winds," 



