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trees can be grown to better advantage, and here 

 they should find a place as ornamental trees that 

 has not hitherto been accorded them. 



In the region of Washington, D. C, the 

 Sequoia has proved altogether hardy, and of 

 course it may be grown readily anywhere along 

 the Atlantic Coast south of this region. It is a 

 tree of extremely rapid growth, almost equaling 

 the eucalyptus. The redwood also is of such 

 rapid growth under cultivation that it soon over- 

 shadows most other trees. Indeed, it grows so 

 rapidly and requires so much room that it is 

 hardly adapted to use as an ornamental tree 

 except in very large grounds. 



I have raised the giant Sequoia (it is known 

 technically as Sequoia gig ant ea) in the nursery 

 from seed, and the redwood (Sequoia semper- 

 virens) from cuttings as well as from seed. The 

 cuttings do fairly well if started in the fall and 

 treated like cuttings of other conifers. 



As to the matter of selection and development, 

 the redwood itself may probably be regarded as 

 a comparatively recent variation from the form 

 of the giant Sequoia. The ancestors of the red- 

 wood took up their location in the valleys nearer 

 the ocean and were modified until they are con- 

 sidered to rank as a distinct species. But the 

 similarity of the two forms is obvious, and the 



