Trees and Shrubs 



general planting. The Pepper grows well in any ordinary gar- 

 den soil with very little cultivation and is highly recommended 

 for planting in the vicinity of chicken yards and outhouses. 



Propagate by seeds sown, one-eighth of an inch deep, in a 

 cold frame in early Spring; pot off the seedlings singly in three- 

 inch pots when they are three inches high, and give them room 

 as required. 



SEQUOIA (Redwood). 



The giant Redwood of Cali- 

 fornia has a world-wide reputa- 

 tion and is one of the wonders of 

 the State, being without doubt 

 the largest of the great family of 

 Conifers. As a landscape tree 

 it is possibly a little formal in 

 habit, but, when a stately 

 conical massive group of form- 

 ally shaped trees is required, no 

 tree is more effective, young 

 specimens, from fifty to one hun- 

 dred years of age and of the 

 same number or more feet in 

 height, forming magnificent groups in any landscape. 



The Sequoia gigantea loves the mountains and is found 

 growing only in sheltered valleys over four thousand feet above 

 the sea level, in deep soil within close proximity to the snow-line, 

 and also where perennial water is percolating within a few feet 

 of the surface of the soil. 



Sequoia sempervirens, on the contrary, prefers a low altitude 

 near the coast but otherwise requires the same conditions of 

 deep soil, reasonable shelter and water close to the surface. 

 Although seldom found growing more than thirty miles away 



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Sequoia gigantea. 



