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name Wellington, without any further say, implied 

 greatness, or it may have been in mere deference to 

 a love of simplicity, in a mute obedience to R. L. 

 Stevenson's expressed objections to the presence of 

 adjectives, this qualifying tribute receded into 

 oblivion. But, whatever was the cause or were the 

 causes, somehow or another, the Gigantea applied 

 to Wellingtonia is dropping into disuse, and the tree 

 is now spoken of as Wellingtonia by those who talk 

 in English, or Sequoia Gigantea by those who affect 

 the Latin language ; while the other Sequoia is 

 similarly known and spoken of as Californian Red 

 Wood, or Sequoia Sempervirens. 



The trees of the Mariposa and Calaveras groves 

 are well known to the host of travellers who have 

 toured the Yosemite Valley, and one Wellingtonia 

 there, that goes by the name of the Grisly Giant, has 

 attained a special notoriety by granting a way-leave 

 through the usually wayless passage of an archway 

 cut in its massive trunk, through which a coach- 

 and-four (or six), at regular intervals, carr^dng annual 

 relays of tourists and globe-trotters, is allowed to 

 pass. 



If the tree permitted this indignity to be offered 

 to its mighty frame for the purpose of advertisement 

 and on the principle — 



That they who in this world would rise 

 Must either bust or advertise, 



the object has been attained. It has not only, by 

 these methods, advertised its existence, its greatness, 

 its locality, its surroundings, but it has been made 

 the medium itself of advertisements, and buyers 

 of Californian brands of fermented and spirituous 

 drinks have been lured on to purchases under the 

 shadow of its " Big Tree " influence. 



There is another characteristic that is beginning 



