THE SECRET OF THE BIG TREES. 
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Is it a vigorous, well-grown tree, the kind that one would pick out as 
especially flourishing in its youth? Not at all. The tree which is 
likely to live to a ripe old age of two or three thousand years grows 
SEQUOIAS ON GIANT FOREST ROAD, SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK. 
The Giant Forest has an area of 3.200 acres and contains 500,000 trees, of 
which 5,000 exceed 10 feet in diameter. There are 11 other groves in tie 
Sequoia National Park ranging from 10 to 2,000 acres m area and containing 
from G to 3,000 trees exceeding 10 feet in diameter. 
slowly in its early days, 
or two-thirds as great as 
Its actual rate of growth may be only half 
that of the trees which attain an age of 500 
