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The Red- Wood. 



gantea, or giant-tree of California, and the 8. sempervirens, or red- 

 wood. The former 

 grow in limited quan- 

 tities, in groves 

 known as those of 

 Calaveras, Tuolum- 

 ne, Merced , and Mar- 

 iposa. In Fresno 

 county, Cal., there 

 have been found oth- 

 ers in recent years, 

 in one place scatter- 

 ed over a region forty 

 miles in length by 

 six or eight in width, 

 and the tree is now 

 raised from seed in 

 various parts of the 

 world. It has been 

 tried many times in 

 the Atlantic States, 

 but from differences 

 of climate it has al- 

 most uniformly fail- 

 ed, perhaps after a 

 few years of appar- 

 ent success. In Eng- 

 land, it has been 

 found to do best in 

 a heavy clay soil, 

 a damp climate, a 

 moist sub-soil, but 

 prefers high lands 

 to low, and is likely 



151. Leaves, ("one, and Seeds of the Sequoia giqantea. 



to be injured by severe frosts and by east winds. 



grate with his tribe to b'eyond the Mississippi, and died in New Mexico in 

 1845. One of his grandfathers was a white man, but in appearance and 

 habits he was wholly Indian. The name was applied by Endlicher, and has 

 preference over " Welling tonia" as used by some English botanists. 



