FORMER CUSTOMERS - we would like to learn HOW your Redwoods are doing. 
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For ZONE 3 
DAWN REDWOOD 
An ancient form of Red- 
wood Tree, believed ex- 
tinct 20 million years 
ago, recently found still 
alive in China. “Nee- 
dles” opposite instead 
of spiral, deciduous 
tree about 100 ft. tall, 
foliage light green, soft, 
fernlike. One of the most 
hardy of Redwoods, 
baby trees have sur- 
vived winter in Boston, 
Philadelphia & Juneau. 
No more seeds from Red 
China—cuttings are 
now the only way. This 
tree and the “Bald Cy- 
press’, almost twins, 
hardy in cold states. 
For ZONE 5 
SIERRA REDWOOD 
The largest, oldest and 
most spectacular tree on 
earth. Often lives 3 to 
4,000 years. Young trees 
often flare at the base 
resembling an Indian 
tepee half-hid by 
branches which sweep 
the ground for centuries. 
Thousand-year-old trees 
have no branches for 
the first 150 feet. Foot- 
thick bark of light cin- 
namon-brown; foliage 
of tiny scales varying 
in color from bluish to 
golden green. Not good 
on a 35 ft. lot. From the 
tropics to "10 below cli- 
mates” — most widely 
planted Redwood. 
For ZONE 8 
COAST REDWOOD 
The world’s tallest tree, 
more slender than Si- 
erra Redwood. Dark 
brown bark, evergreen 
foliage coarsely fern- 
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 
irrigation ditch. Tender 
to cold below 15 above 
zero. Likes crowded for- 
est conditions. May live 
2,000 years; logs last 
centuries on ground. 
Burls (knobs) cut from 
the trunk, sprout shoots 
in a dish of water. 
or warmer 
BALD CYPRESS 
In Dixie, this twin of the 
Dawn Redwood, un- 
kempt in its native 
swamps, gives no 
hint of its beauty under 
proper cultivation. 
Away from swamps, it 
escapes diseases and 
pests, has no “cypress 
knees”, grows to a 
broad stately column of 
dense, fernlike foliage 
which frosts to a rich 
orange-brown before 
falling. In the Sierra 
Nevada foothills, we 
took seeds from one 100 
ft. tall and 101 years 
old.— a_ beautiful sister 
of the Dawn Redwood. 
or warmer 
JAPAN CEDAR 
Erect, plume-shaped ev- 
ergreen tree to 125 feet, 
with dark brownish 
bark. Often called 
plume cryptomeria — 
each branchlet a plume, 
each branch is a larger 
composite plume. Foli- 
age dark green, coarse 
3 or 4-angled needles 2 
to 1 in. long. Cones % 
in., be-whiskered look- 
ing. Much grown in Ja- 
pan and China, for 
beauty, for excellent 
lumber. Has proved 
hardy to New York, in 
sheltered spots, even to 
Boston. A whole grove 
in Severna Park, Md. 
or warmer 
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 
Pennsylvania but may 
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 
“windblown bob”, not 
for cold climate. 
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Taxodium 
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Cunninghamia 
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