1904 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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place any reliance upon the speculations of 

 scientists who say some specimens of the 

 gigrantic troes of California are more than 

 six thousand years old. To day these trees 

 stand the oldest living- wonders of God's 

 handiwork. There may be "sermons in 

 stones and music in running brools," but 

 grand indeed is the inspiration to be had 

 as we stand in awe and view the majestic 

 trees of California. 



While the big trees {Sequoia gi^antea) 

 are capable of furnishing hive material, it 

 is to their younger cousins, the redwoods 

 (.v. sempervirens), that we turn for our hive 

 stuff. The former trees are to be found in 

 a few small groves in the Sierra Nevada 

 Mountains in the eastern portion of the 

 State; 1he latter, in forests of greater or 

 less extent from the Bay of Monterey north- 

 ward along the coast to near the Oregon 



THE TYPICAL REDWOOD FOREST-TREES OF CALIFORNIA. 



