FORMER CUSTOMERS - we would like to learn HOW your Redwoods are doing. 
Metasequoia 
glyptostroboides 
Sequoia ae 
gigantea 
Sequoia 
Sempervirens 
ue 
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 
__tropic¢s.ta, elow 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 qlso_] 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 _ Yeas; 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, 
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 pine 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 %4 
in., be-whiskered look- 
ing. Much grown in Ja- 
pan and Ching, for 
beauty, for excellent 
lumber. Has proved 
hardy to New York, in 
sheltered spots, even to 
Boston. A.whole grove 
in Severna Park, Md. 
a RIA IE i aE SALTED 
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, 
stump becoming very 
bushy. Is safer south of 
Ohio River — two trees 
in_ Bowlin rreen, “Va. 
over a cee ury. , old, best 
in the. e 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. 
gives no 
hint of its beauty under 
sprouts from. 
Taxodium 
distichum 
Cryptomeria 
japonica 
Cunninghamia 
sinensis 
