TREES AND SHRUBS FOR 
SHADE AND ORNAMENT 
SoME MISCELLANEOUS TREE EXPERIMENTS 
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 
D OUBTLESS the most interesting tree in the 
[Votume XI—CwapTer IX] 
