. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2318. Sequoia scmpervirens i {X Vz.) but cut "ff, swept away and destroyed by the glacial age wntii only tlie local (.â uiulitions prevailing in the Coast Range and iSierras of California preserved the two re- maining species to the present time. According to Gray, S. Lamisdorfii, the Sequoia -which is fou
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2318. Sequoia scmpervirens i {X Vz.) but cut "ff, swept away and destroyed by the glacial age wntii only tlie local (.â uiulitions prevailing in the Coast Range and iSierras of California preserved the two re- maining species to the present time. According to Gray, S. Lamisdorfii, the Sequoia -which is found in the mioceiie in Europe, appears in the miocene of Alaska, Greenland, Spitzbergen and Iceland, and it much resembles S. sriii/irrri mi.^. An- other fnssil speeies, S. S/,'ni'jrrened. the geologist an- swers. " Milliuns of ; And it is the same in to the period wlieu Sequoias grew in Greenland. Silirria and (.Treat Britain. We can measure that j^eriod only Ity vast and indefinite epochs. But the value and interest of the Se- quoias are greatly increased by a consideration of their place as tlie last modern survivors of so powerful an ancient family. At the present time the Coast Redwood occupies only a narrow belt of country near the ocean, nor is it con- tinuous even there; the Giant Redwood, or California Big Tree, exists only in a few small and isolated groves, covering in all less than fifty scjuare miles along the â western side of the Sierra Nevada range. Compared with the enormous territory once occupied by species of Sequdins. tie- modern representatives of this ancient ami Ininotvilih,^ family are reduced to a verj-- small area. The first known of the Sequoias, and much the more valuable species, economically speaking, was S. semper- viri'^, the Coast Redwood of California. This is one of the most important timber trees of the world, and its forests, comparatively limited in area, have yielded and are yiidding the most easily obtained,
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