TREES AND SHRUBS FOR 

 SHADE AND ORNAMENT 



SOME MISCELLANEOUS TREE EXPERIMENTS 



DOUBTLESS the most interesting tree in 

 the world is the Sequoia. The mere fact 

 that this is the most gigantic of all exist- 

 ing trees gives it distinction. But it has added 

 interest because it represents a link with the 

 remote past. 



Of course it might be said that any existing 

 vegetable represents a link with the past, since 

 every race has its lines of ancestry tracing back 

 to primordial times. But the Sequoias represent 

 the past in a somewhat different sense, inasmuch 

 as it has maintained more fixedly the traits of its 

 remote ancestors than has been done by any 

 other tree, probably, that now grows in the 

 Northern Hemisphere, with the possible excep- 

 tion of the tulip tree, which represents a quite 

 different type of vegetation. 



The story of the Sequoia's fight for life during 

 the remote geological ages when the climate of 



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