ON ORNAMENTAL TREES 
has proved altogether hardy, and of course it may 
be grown readily anywhere along the Atlantic 
Coast south of this region. It is a tree of extremely 
rapid growth, almost equalling the eucalyptus. The 
redwood also is of such rapid growth under culti- 
vation that it soon overshadows most other trees. 
Indeed, it grows so rapidly and requires so much 
room that it is hardly adapted to use as an orna- 
mental tree except in large grounds. 
I have raised the giant Sequoia (it is known 
technically as Sequoia gigantia) in the nursery 
from seed, and the redwood (Sequoia semper- 
virens) from cuttings as well as from seed. The 
cuttings do fairly well if started in the fall and 
treated like cuttings of other conifers. 
As to the matter of selection and development, 
the redwood itself may probably be regarded as a 
comparatively recent variation from the form of 
the giant Sequoia. The ancestors of the redwood 
took up their location in the valleys nearer the 
ocean and were modified until they are consid- 
ered to rank as distinct species. But the similarity 
of the two forms is obvious, and the two species 
stand in a class by themselves—obviously allied 
to other conifers in the form of leaf and cone and 
manner of growth, yet so far outranking all others 
as to be properly thought of as representatives of 
a unique order of vegetation. 
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