. 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. SEQUOIA stroyoil. The faiimu-: Calavecns -!-nve, whidi i^ his- torically ami scifiitith-aily of \\\r inrerc-t oT ;iiiy Big Tree .^Tcup. was in 1>W hnUii-hl t>y ;t luni lirnnaii who expt-rts to L-oiivort The trees into tirabt-r unless ' "gets his priee" from t!ie state of California. Th
. 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. SEQUOIA stroyoil. The faiimu-: Calavecns -!-nve, whidi i^ his- torically ami scifiitith-aily of \\\r inrerc-t oT ;iiiy Big Tree .^Tcup. was in 1>W hnUii-hl t>y ;t luni lirnnaii who expt-rts to L-oiivort The trees into tirabt-r unless ' "gets his priee" from t!ie state of California. The gen- eral government or sume pul' a^snciation. Some tine :Se(|noias arc in tlic Sr^inna and linuTal Grant national \>arks, l)ar priviit^' claims hold many of the best trees hero, and sawmills ;ii-e now at work in this region. The resistance "tt'ere-d liy t]\\- wnnderful sprrios to fire, old age and drcay i- uniipu-, but it rt-prMdui'rs itself with extr^nn' diiliculry. Tin- sri-ds. i^vrn under favorable ,-. havi/ a very h>w Yitalit\. and one seldom finds a single ynin^^ In-i' in S<ujuoi<i i//s/inih-nlli fm-k uf the Kaweah and on the branches of Tide river. The pres- ervation of these num-nihcent rree^ Is a nnitti'r nf the utmost interest, especially to Anierienns, Sume id' them appear, from an examination of rlie ;-tumps. ti. have lived not less than years. ?ilnir estinuUes (he age of some living trees at ." vear^; one observed by Asa Gray. 24 feet in diaim^t'T. w;is 'd only in Eni:lish, but in other languages. The present condition 119011 of the nomenclature of the famous California "Big Tree" is unfortunate. Ac- cording to a strict interpretation of the Rochester Code. Decaisne's name, ^'. (ihjanti'a, must be discarded, be- cause in 1847 Endlicher named the Coast Redwood Sequoia gi>t>tnfea, thus preventing that term from use again in the same genus. This being admittetl, botan-
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