fe L ONE 9 or warmer 
MONTEZUMA 
CYPRESS 
Similar to Bald Cypress 
and Dawn Redwood, 
but almost a sub-tropi- 
cal. Semi - deciduous, 
. leaves falling the sec- 
ond year, and almost 
deciduous in Zone 9. 
Bears no cones except 
in warm climate. Sev- 
eral trees in Emperor 
Montezuma’s garden 
were big trees when 
Cortez conquered Mex- 
yico—some are still 
there. One tree at Tule, 
near the Mexican-Gua- 
7 temalan border, is much 
® disputed as “the world’s 
largest diameter’ tree 
—about 45 feet. 
TAIWANIA 
Formosan tree to 200 ft. 
— tallest ‘Redwood” 
next to the 2 Sequoias. 
- Often has a clean trunk 
up to 100 or 150 ft., with 
small crown and short 
branches like old Se- 
quoia giganteas. Be- 
lieved to live about 
x, 1,000 years. Foliage of 
tiny dark green “spikes” 
like Cryptomeria, but 
coarser. Leaves on fer- 
tile branches 12 in. long, 
trangular. Leaves on 
sterile branches, round, 
incurved and keeled, in- 
side and outside. Cones 
_ ¥2 in., seeds 4 in. long. 
An evergreen that be- 
comes a stately giant. 
KING WILLIAM 
PINE 
Tasmanian evergreen 
tree to 100 ft., growing 
* from 2,000 ft. to 4,000 ft., 
“rainy climate. Foliage 
. coarser than Sequoia 
# gigantea, more like Tai- 
wania, incurved along 
* twigs. Cone almost 
© identical with Califor- 
nia Coast Redwood, 
gray-brown instead of 
reddish-brown. Seed 
also similar. Lumber 
bulletin of Tasmanian 
Government says its 
lumber is almost iden- 
tical with the Coast 
, Redwood. Tree grows 
‘longer branches, less 
spirelike. Almost un- 
known elsewhere. 
Taxodium 
mucronatum 
Taiwania 
cryptomeriodes 
Athrotaxis 
selaginoides 
California Sequoias Now 
Grow Around the World 
From 1849 to 1860, the California Gold Rush 
spread the two BIG Redwood Trees over the 
globe. In two years of spare-time correspond- 
ence, we have located about 100 large trees 
in the United States, east of the Rocky Moun- 
tains, and several thousand in foreign lands— 
a!l transplanted or grown from seeds. The list 
grows constantly, as we offer a Redwood—or 
other rare plant—to anyone who sends us a 
good glossy photo with age and dimension 
data, of any Sequoia growing outside Cali- 
fornia which we do not already have. To for- 
eign lands, we give free seeds. 
Sierra Redwood — Sequoia gigantea 
Far more hardy to cold and equally sturdy 
to heat, this tree grows in a wide climatic 
range. In the United States, of large trees, 
Pennsylvania has nine, oldest 97 years; Rhode 
Island one, of about 60 years; Long Island 
one, or 45 years; North Carolina, Washing- 
ton, D. C., Oklahoma, New Jersey, Delaware 
all have one or more. Younger trees grow 
from New York to San Diego, from Vancouver 
to Georgia. In foreign lands, there are over 
1,000 — about 500 in Germany alone, two 
groves in Austria, many in the British Isles, 
a few in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy 
and Guatemala, and many in Australia and 
New Zealand. Many are nearly 100 years old. 
Coast Redwood — Sequoia sempervirens 
Both the Dawn and Coast Redwoods once 
grew over much of Europe and Asia, and from 
Oregon to Georgia. Today, South Carolina 
leads with eight about 100 years old; Virginia 
has 38, but only one a century old; Washing- 
ton, D. C., has one; a few are found in New 
Jersey, North Carolina, Delaware, Maryland, 
Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and Tennessee. 
Younger trees are growing in Texas, Ken- 
tucky, and other southern and southeastern 
states—a total of several hundred trees. In 
foreign lands, Spain has a grove older than 
the State of California; Ireland and England 
have many, dating to about 1860; South Africa 
has three separate groves; Australia and New 
Zealand have many, some nearing 100 years; 
Italy has a few; Brazil has one. 
Their ADAPTABILITY Proved 
The Sierra Redwood lives from Guatemala 
to northern Germany, near the cold Baltic 
Sea. The Coast Redwood lives in hot, dry 
Spain and South Africa, by irrigation—and in 
cool, rainy New Zealand. In past ages, and 
today, BOTH trees have succeeded in a wide 
range of soils. Most failures have been when 
the trees were young — and tender. And 
usually the failure has been the fault, not of 
the trees, but of human beings who would 
NOT take the trouble to give these giant trees 
even a fair IMITATION of their natural habi- 
tat. The old NOTION that “you can't grow 
Redwood trees outside of California’’ dies 
hard, but is has been exploded by our list of 
nearly 2,000 of the 2 California Sequoias that 
ARE GROWING in “eastern” U. S. and around 
the world! 
You, Too, Can Grow Redwood Trees! 
CARE when YOUNG, PROPER SITE—imitates habitat, makes them succeed 
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