Sequoia 
gigantea 
L70 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CONIFERZ:. 
CUPRESSINEZ:. 
SEQUOIA GIGANTEA.—Endlicher (?) 
(Synon). Wellingtonia gigantca.—Lindley. 
Gordon, Pinet. 330. 
Hooker, Bot. Mag. vol. 80, th. 4777—8. 
(with a full history of the tree). 
The Sequoia gigantea of Endlicher’s Conif. is a 
nonentity, according to Sir W. Hooker in Bot. 
Mag.; being founded solely on a mistaken figure 
in the Icones Plantarum which really belonged to 
the Abies bracteata. Of the so-called Wellingtonia, 
we have none but young plants at Barton; but 
they thrive very well, and seem, as far as we 
can yet judge, to be quite hardy. Their growth is 
very rapid. Of the two principal specimens here, 
the one in the Vicarage Grove, planted February 
4th, 1859,* is above six feet high, and gained 
nineteen inches in height in the course of the one 
year 1862; the other in the arboretum, pl. 1858, 
is a little taller, and grew twenty-eight inches 
in the same year. It is remarkable that the 
erowth of the young plants should be so very 
rapid; while, as is evident from the remarkable 
narrowness of the rings of growth in the specimens 
of the wood which have been brought, the growth 
of the mature tree must be extremely slow. The 
young shoots appear very tender and succulent, 
* On Sir Charles Bunbury’s 5oth birthday. 
