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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 
“THE REDWOOD HOAX 
"I thought that Redwood Trees would 
' NOT grow outside of California''- has been 
{ written to us by thousands of people. THIS 
is a great HOAX- utterly untrue, but it has 
traveled world-wide! Several thousand of 
the TWO California Redwoods are growing 
in "eastern'' U.S. and foreign lands, many 
about 100 years old. And the other 13 spe- 
cies of Redwoods are NATIVE to other 
parts of the world--and most of them UN- 
KNOWN in California! 
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Here are a. FEW reggons for this ERROR. 
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1. Of the TWO California Redwoods (Se- 
quoias)--ONE can stand winters in ONLY 
13 other states, the OTHER ONE can grow 
in 40 other states. FEW people know this, 
even in California! And so thousands of 
people have planted the WRONG Redwood 
for their climate, so of course it DIED! 
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2. California has had a MONOPOLY on 
these two biggest Redwoods, which has 
brought in many millions of dollars each 
year--from LUMBER and as a TOURIST 
attraction. You can hardly blame those 
Californians who want to KEEP THIS MON- 
, OPOLY, for spreading the Redwood Hoax", 
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3. For years, the TENDER Coast Redwood 
has been dug from the forest, crammed 
into smali cans, and sold to visitors. Most 
of these trees are DEAD before the visitor 
gets home. and they would die the FIRST 
WINTER anyway, in all but 13 states. The 
more HARDY Sierra Redwood has rarely 
been sold to visitors--because it is NOT 
growing as a baby tree in the woods, ex- 
cept in 6 of the 72 native groves. These 
groves are U.S. or State preserves, and 
you will land in jail quick for digging them, 
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4. Californians know little about GROWING 
Redwoods. FEW of them know that a baby 
Redwood ONE FOOT tall may cover a TEN 
FOOT circle with its roots! They DIG a 
TEN INCH circle, get about 5% of the 
roots, and of course the tree DIES. One 
California nurseryman TOLD US that he 
had shipped 15,000 Coast Redwoods, and 
could NOT locate over FIVE that had lived. 
Redwoods MUST BE GROWN in CONTAIN - 
ee so they are shipped with ALL their 
roots! _ Re EE og OAR SRE ET ROE 
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5. Our 16-page booklet gives the ONLY 
INSTRUCTIONS ever published, for grow- 
ing Redwoods in COLD CLIMATES! Tree 
and plant EXPERTS in the "eastern" states 
treat a Redwood like a pine, which is ab- 
' solutely WRONG. It should be treated more 
like a rhododendron, for success! 
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NO WONDER so many Redwoods have 
DIED! It is surprising that so many have 
LIVED! 
‘Over 90% of our Redwoods 
are ALIVE, in many clim- 
ates. Many have succeeded 
for people whose Redwoods 
bought elsewhere have DIED 
California Sequoias Now 
Grow Around the World 
From 1849 to 1860, pe California Gold.Rush 
spread.the two BIG Hedwoac [Trees ove: 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— 
all 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 ears; Rhode 
Island one, of about 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 Austen The Bettieh 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, St Carolina 
leads with eight about 1 108 XEGES.OF old; Virginia 
has 38, but only one a century old: : Washing: 
ton, D. C., has.one; a few are found in New 
Jersey, orth 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 
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! 
HORTUS II lists 14 “Redwoods”—Harvard University proved “graft-compatibility” 
NOW — thousands of our Redwoods grown in U. S. by our Members. 
