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hedges of Burlingame and Los Angeles, is a far 

 cry, but in point of fact the hedges are of the same 

 stuff as the trees. The Monterey cypress, removed 

 from the pelting of ocean northwesters is quite a 

 conventionalist in method of growth; moreover it 

 lends itself with peculiar complaisance to the fancy 

 of the topiary artist. It has, accordingly, long been 

 a favorite in California for hedges, the tree in such 

 situations of course being continually cut back to 

 required dimensions; and it has also been exten- 

 sively planted for wind-breaks and as a shade tree ; 

 so in spite of the small area to which it is indigenous, 

 it is of all the State 's trees, one of the best known to 

 Californians, and indeed to the world at large. Its 

 seeds have been shipped around the globe, and it is 

 now cultivated even in the antipodes. 



Also in cultivation to-day, and therefore for the 

 present safe from the extinction which threatens 

 rare wildings through the settlement of the country, 

 is the third of this trio of coniferous rarities the 

 Torrey or Soledad pine (Pinus Torreyana). It is 

 indigenous to a few miles of territory near the 

 mouth of the Soledad Eiver between Del Mar and 

 La Jolla, in San Diego County, and to Santa Rosa 

 Island off Santa Barbara, and nowhere else at all. 

 The tree was described by Dr. C. C. Parry, whose at- 

 tention was called to it about 1855, and named by 



