ABIES. 221 



abundant in the North Temperate Zone. Timber and turpentine are 

 their special products.* 



The Douglass Fir (Abies Dougldssii) of Oregon, and the Red wood 

 (Sequoya sempermrens) of California, are frequently 12 feet in diameter 

 and 200 feet high. The Lambert Pine (P. Lambertidna) of California, 

 a tree of faultless symmetry, is often 12 feet in diameter and 300 feet 



View in Calaveras. 



high. But over all towers the Giant 

 Cedar of the Sierras (Sequoya gigdn- 



tea). One grove in Calaveras County contains 90 "scMJallecT" Big 



350 in altitude ! f 



h 6 Ji d f the /! nes ' Cedars ' and of the C^nifeiTgenerally, is remarkably dis- 



, - 



b dlskS WWch Under the mi croscope appear like pearl, 



L th, f S M a ,7- < ; 0d " Ce11 - ThiS f rm ' Called *** tis * ue < has often been fleeted 

 i the fossils of bituminous coal, thus revealing the origin of that useful mineral. 



diffirnH? ^ r 6 P ?? eCt 8ymmetl 7 of these ^ anti c trees that the spectator finds it 

 ;ahze their enormous proportions. " If," says Whitney, "one could be 



