Sequoia sempervirens adpressa, 
or albo-spica 
Garden varzety. 
Nat. Order: ConIFERA. wlribe : TAxXoDINE&. 
Sequoia sempervirens, var. adpressa, Carriére, “ Traité Conif.” 
ed. ii. 211. S. sempervirens, var. alba spica, “ Hort. Brit.” 
This is a variegated form of the Californian Red Wood. 
The tips of the young shoots are a creamy white, which 
become dull in colour in the winter: it is also liable to have 
the variegation browned by cold-winds. The Seguota semper- 
virens is the most valuable timber tree in California, and is 
used for every description of work. It is one of the few 
conifers which will reproduce itself from suckers. When cut 
down to within a few inches of the ground it will throw up 
shoots quite four feet high the first season after being cut 
down. The late Sir Victor Brooke, writing from California in 
1890 of the big trees on the Pacific coast, says, “It is the next 
largest tree to Seguoia Wellingtonia. It measures 350 feet in 
height, and is confined to the coast range. It makes splendid 
timber. Six taken at random measured at four feet from the 
ground forty feet, fifty-two feet, thirty-eight and a half feet, 
forty feet, fifty feet, and twenty-seven feet in circumference. 
It is a most graceful giant.” 
