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MY GARDEN. 



probably preferable. The effect of C. Deodara in a garden is well seen 

 in plate 10. 



A gigantic tree, Wellingtonia gigantca, or Sequoia, has been in- 

 troduced from California so recently as the year 1854, which is now 

 being planted in every large garden, and does 

 very well in some. It seems to delight in a 

 soil where gold quartz exists, and then it attains 

 the prodigious height of 400 feet, about the 

 same height as the top of the cross on the dome 

 of St. Paul's Cathedral. It is a tree which 

 requires much light and air, with a damp soil ; 

 and the proximity of other trees, even at a 

 considerable distance, impairs its symmetry and 

 growth. I raised one from seed, which is now 

 sixteen feet high, and its girth at the ground 

 three feet ; its growth is most symmetrical 



F,c. 960.- Wellingtonia gigantea. ^ beautiful ( fig - ^^ Mr JacksOll, at Beech- 



wood Lodge near my garden, has a good specimen. 



A Wellingtonia was planted in the pleasure-grounds of Strathfield- 

 saye by her Grace the Duchess of Wellington in April 1857. In 

 January 1872 his Grace the Duke of Wellington had it measured, 

 when it was found to be 30 feet high, 8 feet 7 inches round the trunk 

 at the ground, and 5 feet 4 inches in circumference four feet from the 

 ground. The diameter of the branches was 18 feet 6 inches. 



Two other trees, which were used to decorate the supper-table on 

 the occasion of a ball at Apsley House, at which her Majesty and 

 the late Prince Consort were present, were planted in October 1865 

 near the monument to the late Duke of Wellington. One is now 18 

 feet 4 inches high, the other 17 feet 9 inches; the circumference of 

 the trunk at the base of the first being 3 feet 7 inches, of the second 

 4 feet, and the diameter of the branches 10 feet 6 inches and 

 10 feet respectively. As these trees were properly planted, and 

 have been well cared for, they fairly exhibit the normal growth of the 

 species in this country under favourable circumstances. Having also an 



