For Z ONE 8 or warmer 
ALB COAST REDWOOD 
<f@ The world's tallest tree, 
“Sq more slender than Si- 
®erra Redwood. Dark 
| brown bark, evergreen 
foliage coarsely fern- 
i like, tree spire-like when 
crowded, grows 3 feet 
per year in right place. 
# Sprouts new trees from 
stumps. Thrives in ocean 
@ fog, but also lives in 
/ hot, dry Spain along an 
y irrigation ditch. Tender 
y to cold below 15 above 
; zero. Likes crowded for- 
s est conditions. May live 
© 2,000 years; logs last 
centuries on ground. 
‘i Burls (knobs) cut from 
~~ the trunk, sprout shoots 
in a dish of water. 
CHINA FIR 
Evergreen from East 
Asia, up to 80 feet tall, 
with moderately slender 
trunk and very bushy 
“feather-duster’’ crown. 
Grown as far north as 
Sequoia 
Sempervirens 
Poa Pennsylvania but may. 
E die back in very severe 
winters, sprouts from 
stump becoming very 
bushy. Is safer south of 
Ohio River — two trees 
in Bowling Green, Va. 
over a century old, best 
in the U. S. Cones about 
2 in. long, pine-like but 
= with thin, sharp-pointed 
_ scales. A vigorous tree, 
suggests a girl with a 
PS ese “windblown bob”, not 
yahingnee for cold climate 
sinensis ; 
PENCIL PINE 
Tasmanian evergreen 
tree to 40 ft—unknown 
almost everywhere 
else. Wood similar to 
cedar or redwood, used 
to make pencils. The 
foliage is scale-like, sim- 
ilar to Sequoia gigan- 
tea, each scale 1/6 in. 
long, hugging the twigs 
closely. Cones are 12 
in. or less, with tiny 
seeds. In 3 years, we 
have been unable to get 
seeds, or even a photo- 
graph of this tree. Even 
Botanical Gardens in 
Australia, just across 
the channel from Tas- 
mania, have ASKED US 
to send them this tree, 
IF WE EVER GET IT. 
Athrotaxis 
cupressoides 
For ZONE 9 or warmer 
WATER PINE 
Smallest tree of the Red- 
wood Family—a minia- 
ture of the Dawn Red- 
wood and Bald Cypress, 
Is native to S. E. China. 
Believed hardy only in 
warm climates. Often 
confused with Taxodi- . 
ums, but actually very & 
rare. Cones % in. long | 
—name means “carved 
cone.” Photo shows tree 
in Golden Gate Park & 
beside lily pool. Foliage 
dense, light green, turns 
reddish in autumn. To 
15 ft.—can be grown in 
conservatories with gm 
ferns, sub-tropicals, etc. 
A feathery midget in a 
family of rugged giants. 
FORMOSA FIR 
Similar to China Fir but 
taller—to 100 ft.—with 
cinnamon-brown bark 
(like Sequoia gigantea) 
which turns gray-white 
with age. Leaves stiff, 
needle-pointed but No 
shorter— 2 to 1 in. long 
— gray-green with 2 L 
narrow stomatic bands Pp oto 
above and 2 broad 
white bands beneath. Yet 
Leaves longer on juve- 
nile trees. Cones 12 to 
1 in. long, pine-like with 
a point on each scale. 
A handsome tree with 
thick foliage. A hardier 
strain of this tree is in 
the Himalayas—we are Conninghamia 
trying to get it also. Konishii 
HYBRID PINE 
Tasmanian evergreen 
tree to 40 ft., believed 
to be a natural hybrid 
between A. selaginoides 
and A. cupressoides. 
Scale-like foliage mid- 
way in size between the ¢ 
foliage of its supposed } 
parents. Its wood also | 
similar to redwood. 
Cones to % inch across, 
with small seeds—both 
similar to those of Coast 
Redwood. Grows in rug- 
ged mountains, prob- 
ably has never been in 
the United States. We ne 
have foliage, but are 
unable to get live seeds. 
We have located this Athrotasis 
tree in Eire, and will try laxifolia 
to get seeds or cuttings! 
Glyptostrobus 
heterophyllus 
Climatic Map and Tree List on page 3—will help you choose safely 
