Sequoia Gigantea 
Native of California. 
Nat. Order: ConiFERA. Tribe: TAxoDINE&. 
Sequoia Wellingtonia, Seeman, “ Bonpl.” iii. 27 (1855) ; Veitch, 
Manual, ed. ii. 274 (1900); S. gigantea, Decaisne 
in Bull. Soc. Bot. de France, i. 72 (1854). 
Wellingtonia gigantea, Lindley in Gard. Chron. 1853, p. 823; 
Bot. Mag., 4777, 4778 (1854). 
More generally known as Wellingtonia gigantea. Mr. 
Lobb, one of the collectors of the late Mr. James Veitch, was 
the first to introduce this magnificent tree into Great Britain, in 
1853. It is said to be the largest tree in the world, although 
some of the Australian Eucalypti are higher. The Welling- 
tonia has been known to grow to a height of four hundred 
and twenty-five feet. The bark is a rich cinnamon-brown 
colour, and of a soft spongy nature. The tree figured is 
eighty-four feet high, and the girth of the trunk at one foot 
from the ground is twenty-seven feet. It grows in perfect 
shelter, and in deep moist soil. I have had to cut down 
several trees not quite so large as this one, and I have in- 
variably found large fissures in the centre of the trunk for the 
first ten feet, which, of course, was quite useless for timber. 
The wood is of considerable weight, as the first eight feet of 
the last one I cut weighed thirty-six hundredweight. 
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