TREES AND SHRUBS FOR 

 SHADE AND ORNAMENT 



SOME MISCELLANEOUS TREE EXPERIMENTS 



DOUBTLESS the most interesting tree in the 

 world is the Sequoia. The mere fact that 

 this is the most gigantic of all existing 

 trees gives it distinction. But it has added interest 

 because it represents a link with the remote past. 



Of course it might be said that any existing 

 vegetable represents a link with the past, since 

 every race has its lines of ancestry tracing back 

 to primordial times. But the Sequoia represents 

 the past in a somewhat different sense, inasmuch 

 as it has maintained more fixedly the traits of its 

 remote ancestors than has been done by any other 

 tree, probably, that now grows in the northern 

 hemisphere, with the possible exception of the 

 tulip tree, which represents a quite different type 

 of vegetation. 



The story of the Sequoia's fight for life during 

 the remote geological ages when the climate of the 



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