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the conditions for successful cultivation of the former are suited to the 

 requirements of the latter, and good specimens, once the tree becomes 

 established, are soon formed. 



SEQUOIA GIGANTEA, Torr. 



Syne. S. Wellingtonia, Seem. ; Wellingtonia gigantea, Lindl. ; Washingtonia 

 californica, Winsl. 



Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1853, p. 823; Gard. Chron. 1853, p. 819; id. 1854, p. 118 (Note 

 on wood and cone) ; id. 1855, p. 70 (a Lecture on Wellingtonia gigantea); PI. des 

 Serres, torn. ix. p. 93 ; id. p. 121 ; Man. Con. ed. 2, p. 275, figs. 84, 85. 



This, the Wellingtonia, or Mammoth Tree, giant in the forest primeval, 

 the largest of all coniferous subjects, unsurpassed by any of any other 

 Natural Order, with the possible exception of the Eucalypti of Western 

 Australia, was probably first discovered by John Bidwill in 1841, but 

 nothing definitely known till in 1852 it was again met with by the hunter 

 Dowd. 



First introduced to Europe through William Lobb, who sent seed and 

 a living specimen to Exeter in 1853. 



A full account of the introduction of this tree to this, country is given 

 in Veitchs' Manual of Coniferae (I.e. supra). 



THUIA DOLABEATA, Linn. 



Syns. Thujopsis dolabrata, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Gard. Chron. 1861, p. 23 (Thujopsis); id. 1882, vol. xviii. p. 556, figs.; Man. Con. 



1900, ed. 2, p. 236. 



Thuia dolabrata, first known to Europeans through the Swedish 

 botanist Thunberg, who gathered specimens, communicated to Linnaeus, 

 in Japan in 1776. These specimens became the property of the Linnsean 

 Society of London, and descriptions were published by David Don in 

 Lambert's Genus Pinus in 1828. 



The first living plant to reach England was sent by Thomas Lobb in 

 1853 from the Botanic Garden at Buitenzorg in Java ; arriving in an 

 exhausted condition, all attempts to save it proved fruitless. Shortly 

 afterwards a plant received by Captain Fortescue, planted in Devonshire, 

 had better fortune, but it was not till the late John Gould Veitch in 1861 

 sent seed to Chelsea, and Fortune some to Ascot, that T. dolabrata became 

 generally distributed, and could take that high rank as an ornamental 

 tree it has won in this country. In the Japanese hill districts bordering 

 the shores of Lake Yumoto, it is the forest carpet. 



THUIA DOLABEATA, Linn., var. L^TEVIEENS, Mast. 



Syns. Thujopsis Isetivirens, Lindl. 



Lindl. in Gard Chron. 1862, p. 428 ; Gordon's Pinetum, ed. 2, 399 (as T. dolabrata 

 nana); Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. vol. xviii. 486; Man. Con. 1900, ed. 2, p. 237. 



Sent from Japan by the late John Gould Veitch, a dwarf-spreading 



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