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LAWN AND SHADE TREES. 
fornia, where its average height is two hundred feet, with trunks 
from eighteen to twenty-four feet in circumference, quite straight 
and clear of branches to the height of sixty or seventy feet. It 
grows rapidly in almost any soil, and may yet become one of 
our most valuable timber trees for planting South and West. 
The wood is of a beautiful red, fine and close-grained, light 
and durable, and like red cedar never attacked by insects. 
Fig. 34.— Mammoth Thee of California. 
As an ornamental tree, it must be used where room can be 
given, looking forward to its immense ultimate growth. As a 
graceful lawn tree, or as a center tree to an extensive group of 
cypress, both evergreen and deciduous, larch, birch, etc., it is 
well suited by its strong yet light and airy character. With 
