EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 579 
of it : “ This one of our greatest accessions in the middle States, 
being now perfectly hardy with us, and very distinctive. It is a 
handsome, pyramidal tree, with numerous spreading branches, grow- 
ing from forty to fifty feet high, found in the middle and northern 
parts of Florida, where it is commonly known by the inhab- 
itants as stinking cedar, and wild nutmeg. Our best specimen 
is about eight feet high, very dense, showing nothing but foliage, 
like a thrifty arbor-vitae, and remarkable, particularly in winter, for 
the star-like appearance of the extreme tips of its shoots.” 
THE SEQUOIA. Sequoia. 
This name has been given to those giant trees of California, 
popularly known as the redwood, and the big-tree of California, 
the latter being formerly named by botanists Washingtonia and 
Wellingtonia. 
The Big-Tree of California. Sequoia gigantea ( Washing- 
tonia, We/iingtonia J.-— The size of this giant among giants may 
be imagined by the fact, that through the hollow of one of the 
felled trees, a man on horseback rode seventy-five feet, and came 
out through a knot-hole in the side, without dismounting ! Trees 
three hundred feet high are known, and one has been measured, 
with a circumference of one hundred and six feet, four feet from 
the ground. 
At Rochester, in the specimen grounds of Ellwanger & Barry, 
are fine healthy specimens, from ten to sixteen feet high, that do 
not seem to be injured in winter. In form they are as conical as 
the balsam fir ; in foliage resemble the arbor-vitses. The branches 
are numerous, straight, evenly and irregularly distributed from the 
trunk, quite horizontal, and small in proportion to the size of the 
trunk. The bark is of a light cinnamon color. The tree shows 
early a tendency to cast its lower branches. The trunk swells to 
great size at the base in proportion to the height of the tree, and 
diminishes regularly and rapidly above, like the cypress. Annual 
growth at the top from two to three feet. The foliage is mostly 
