cial creation of enlarged specimens, the result 
of exceptionally favorable conditions of soil 
and climate; consequently, they are in many 
instances simply unexcelled. 
If we Californians would enter upon the 
exalted stage prepared for us by Mother 
Nature, we will profit by avoiding the errors 
of older nations, by the study of our own 
matchless forests, insistence upon their preser¬ 
vation, and consequent inheritance of their 
benign influence upon our own advancement. 
Preparatory to the serious study of forestry, 
and in accordance with the outline of topics 
presented in “Some Hints upon Forestry,” let 
us in this paper take up the first topic there 
suggested, learn how to distinguish the many 
kinds of trees, call them by name, and get 
acquainted with them in their homes. 
R E D WO O DS —SEQ UOIA 
Of course, the first tree that comes into the 
mind of a Californian, native or adopted, is the 
Redwood (Sequoia ), the chief of all trees in 
size and majesty; one species (S. semper- 
vireris) dominating the coast forests, with its 
wealth of valuable lumber trees; the other, the 
Big Tree (S. W'ashingtoniana ), ennobling the 
Sierra forests with its mammoth columnar 
trunk and its immense crown of perfect ver¬ 
dure, not a limb awry or dead, nor a tree 
dying until prostrated by its own overweight 
or a severe storm. 
So well known at home and abroad are these 
mammoth trees that this mere brief mention 
of them in the order of their importance suf¬ 
fices. It is pertinent in passing to call atten¬ 
tion to the newly-discovered fact that, of the 
fifty or more extinct species of a prodigious 
forest known to have extended well over 
northern regions, of which our two Sequoias 
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