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less leafy. Toward the south, however, 

 where the Sequoia becomes more exu- 

 berant and numerous, the rival trees be- 

 come less so ; and where they mix with 

 Sequoia they mostly grow up beneath 



Sugar Pines which lay crumbling be- 

 neath them, an instance of conditions 

 which have enabled Sequoia to^crowd 

 out the Pines. 



"I also noted eighty-six vigorous sap- 



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A TYPICAL FOREST SCENE. 



them, like slender grasses among stalks lings upon a piece of fresh ground pre- 



of Indian corn. Upon a bed of sandy pared for their reception by lire. Thus 



flood-soil, I counted ninety-four Sequoia, fire also furnishes bare virgin ground, 



from one to twelve feet high, on a patch one of the conditions essential for its 



of ground once occupied by four large growth from the seed. Fresh ground is, 



