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TREES OF THE CALIFORNIA WAYSIDE AND 

 WHERE THEY CAME FROM 



AMERICANS, as a class, have been slow to real- 

 ize the value of their native sylva for orna- 

 ment and shade on cultivated grounds, and while 

 for three-quarters of a century the parks and estates 

 of the Old World have drawn upon the magnificent 

 forests of the Pacific Coast for types of arboreal 

 beauty, Calif ornians, when they plant a tree, gener- 

 ally plant an exotic. As the eastern visitor in Cali- 

 fornia motors over the thousand and one fine roads 

 that now gridiron the State, or saunters along the 

 shady avenues of any one of a score of her little 

 sylvan cities, he is quickly struck with the strange- 

 ness of the trees, among which is hardly one to re- 

 mind him of his eastern home. In fact, California 

 has ransacked the ends of the earth for her way- 

 side trees. China and Japan, Australia and India, 

 Chile, Peru and Brazil, the Mediterranean regions 

 of Europe, Asia and Africa and the islands of the 

 Pacific all these and more have been drawn upon. 



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