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and there is not a sequoia in Great Britain that 

 has been planted fifty years ; if, as stated, the 

 seeds were first brought to this country in 1853. 



The cones are solitary, the bark thick and 

 stringy, and the foliage takes rather after the 

 cypress and some of the junipers. 



"The big tree's" sister, "the redwood," S. 

 %cmpcrvirens, grows along the sides of the ridges 

 near the coast from Northern California to the 

 South of San Francisco. "Timber" describing 

 the wonderful forests of "the redwood belt" 

 remarks : " Four acres of redwood are known to 

 " have cut 1,000,000 feet b.m. {i.e., the volume 

 " of a board one inch thick and one square 

 " foot in area). This is not really so remark- 

 " able when you realise that these trees often 

 " contain 10,000 feet b.m. Their tall straight 

 " columnar trunks, limbless for 200 feet, stand 

 " so closely together that they seem to form a 

 " wall of cinnamon-brown bark, while their short 

 " spreading top branches seem to support the 

 " firmament itself. The Douglas fir does not 

 " have such a large maximum yield per acre, but 

 " its average is not much less." 



The flowers, cones, and bark of the two 

 varieties are much alike, and the wood is said 

 to be of much the same charafter; but we have 

 only seen that of S. gigantea, and this is so 

 very light and brittle that it seems astonishing 



