Sequoia 701 



30 feet in height at Berkhampstead, Herts, is mentioned by Webster.^ In the 

 Revue Horticole, 1906, p. 395, f. 157, a curious weeping Wellingtonia, growing at 

 the Trianon, is figured. The stem, which is 42 feet in length, bends over and is 

 supported on one side by a prop. Barron also obtained a weeping form, which was 

 sold as S. gigantea Barroni pendula} 



2. Var. aurea (var. aureo-variegata). The young shoots are amber-coloured at 

 first, but speedily become deep yellow, the colour being pretty uniform over the 

 whole tree. The original plant was a seedling, which Hartland^ of the Lough 

 Nurseries, Cork, received in 1856. It began to show colour when it was about a 

 foot high, and after it had attained 8 feet, a large number of golden Wellingtonias 

 were propagated from it by grafting. A specimen 20 feet high was growing * in the 

 public garden at Denbigh in 1887. We have seen no trees of this variety of a 

 considerable size. 



3. Several other varieties, which I have not seen, are mentioned by Beissner * 

 diS glauca, argeniea, Holmsii, and. pygmcea. (A. H.) 



Distribution 



Wellingtonia has a restricted distribution, being confined to the western slopes 

 of the Sierra Nevada of California, in an interrupted belt at elevations of from 5000 

 to 8400 feet above sea-level, extending from the middle fork of the American River 

 (lat. 39) to the head of Deer Creek, just south of lat. 36. 



I am indebted to Mr. Gifford Pinchot for the most recent account which has 

 been officially published of the big trees of California,'^ illustrated by some 

 excellent photographs ; from which it appears that John Bid well in 1841 was really 

 the first to discover this tree in the Calaveras Grove, Prof Brewer of Yale having 

 been the first scientific visitor in 1864 to this and the Mariposa Grove. Mr. Whitney, 

 in the Yosemiie Guide Book (1870) described eight of the then known groves, 

 namely : 



I. The North Grove in Placer county is on a tributary of the middle fork of the 



Hardy Coniferous Trees, 113 (1896). 



2 Another weeping form is said to have originated in Little and Ballantyne's nursery at Carlisle ; but the original tree 

 died in 1877. C(. Journal of Forestry, iii. 260(1879). ' Letter to Kew. 



* Card. Chron. ii. 276 (1887). Nadelhohkunde, 165 (1891). 



A " Report on the Stanislaus and Lake Tahoe Forest Reserves, by G. B. Sudworth," Bulletin No. 28 ; U.S. Deft, of 

 Agriculture, Division of Forestry, published at Washington in 1900, which gives the following table of measurements of thirty 

 of the big trees in the Calaveras Grove : 



