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name Wellington, without any further say, implied 
greatness, or it may have been in mere deference to 
a love of simplicity, in a mute obedience to R. L. 
Stevenson’s expressed objections to the presence of 
adjectives, this qualifying tribute receded into 
oblivion. But, whatever was the cause or were the © 
causes, somehow or another, the Gigantea applied 
to Wellingtonia is dropping into disuse, and the tree 
is now spoken of as Wellingtonia by those who talk 
in English, or Sequoia Gigantea by those who affect 
the Latin language; while the other Sequoia is 
similarly known and spoken of as Californian Red 
Wood, or Sequoia Sempervirens. 
The trees of the Mariposa and Calaveras groves 
are well known to the host of travellers who have 
toured the Yosemite Valley, and one Wellingtonia 
there, that goes by the name of the Grisly Giant, has 
attained a special notoriety by granting a way-leave 
through the usually wayless passage of an archway 
cut in its massive trunk, through which a coach- 
and-four (or six), at regular intervals, carrying annual 
relays of tourists and globe-trotters, is allowed to 
pass. 
If the tree permitted this indignity to be offered 
to its mighty frame for the purpose of advertisement 
and on the principle— 
That they who in this world would rise 
Must either bust or advertise, 
the object has been attained. It has not only, by 
these methods, advertised its existence, its greatness, 
its locality, its surroundings, but it has been made 
the medium itself of advertisements, and buyers 
of Californian brands of fermented and spirituous 
drinks have been lured on to purchases under the 
shadow of its ‘‘ Big Tree ”’ influence. 
There is another characteristic that is beginning 
