Sequoia 701 
30 feet in height at Berkhampstead, Herts, is mentioned by Webster.’ In the 
Revue Horticole, 1906, p. 395, f. 157, a curious weeping Wellingtonia, growing at 
the Trianon, is figured. The stem, which is 42 feet in length, bends over and is 
supported on one side by a prop. Barron also obtained a weeping form, which was 
sold as S. gigantea Barront pendula. 
2. Var. aurea (var. aureo-variegata), The young shoots are amber-coloured at 
first, but speedily become deep yellow, the colour being pretty uniform over the 
whole tree. The original plant was a seedling, which Hartland* of the Lough 
Nurseries, Cork, received in 1856. It began to show colour when it was about a 
foot high, and after it had attained 8 feet, a large number of golden Wellingtonias 
were propagated from it by grafting. A specimen 20 feet high was growing * in the 
public garden at Denbigh in 1887. We have seen no trees of this variety of a 
considerable size. 
3. Several other varieties, which I have not seen, are mentioned by Beissner °® 
as glauca, argentea, Holmsit, and pygmea. (A. H.) 
DISTRIBUTION 
Wellingtonia has a restricted distribution, being confined to the western slopes 
of the Sierra Nevada of California, in an interrupted belt at elevations of from 5000 
to 8400 feet above sea-level, extending from the middle fork of the American River 
(lat. 39°) to the head of Deer Creek, just south of lat. 36°. 
Iam indebted to Mr. Gifford Pinchot for the most recent account which has 
been officially published of the big trees of California,’ illustrated by some 
excellent photographs ; from which it appears that John Bidwell in 1841 was really 
the first to discover this tree in the Calaveras Grove, Prof. Brewer of Yale having 
been the first scientific visitor in 1864 to this and the Mariposa Grove. Mr. Whitney, 
in the Yosemite Guide Book (1870) described eight of the then known groves, 
namely :— 
1. The North Grove in Placer county is on a tributary of the middle fork of the 
1 Hardy Coniferous Trees, 113 (1896). 
2 Another weeping form is said to have originated in Little and Ballantyne’s nursery at Carlisle; but the original tree 
died in 1877. Cf. Journal of Forestry, iii. 260 (1879). 3 Letter to Kew. 
4 Gard. Chron. ii. 276 (1887). 5 Nadelholzkunde, 165 (1891). 
6 A * Report on the Stanislaus and Lake Tahoe Forest Reserves, by G. B. Sudworth,” Bulletin No. 28; U.S. Dept. of 
Agriculture, Division of Forestry, published at Washington in 1900, which gives the following table of measurements of thirty 
of the big trees in the Calaveras Grove :— 
ie pa ek i above Height. lg Tene i above Height. bos cag oe Si above Height. 
Feet. Feet. Feet. Feet. Feet. Feet. 
I 9.0 235 Il 12.5 250 21 15.0 325 
2 9.0 251 12 12.5 266 22 15-5 268 
3 9.5 260 13 13.0 286 23 15.5 272 
4 10,0 237 14 13.5 320 24 15.5 289 
5 10.0 243 15 14.0 259 25 16.0 262 
6 10.0 261 16 14.0 265 26 16.0 275 
7 10.5 248 17 14.0 269 27 16.5 266 
8 11.0 255 18 14.5 278 =| 28 16.5 268 
9 11.0 260 19 15.0 285 || 29 16.5 288 
10 12.0 248 20 15.0 307 30 19.5 315 
