. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. 430 MV garden:. probably preferable. The effect of C. Deodara in a garden is well seen in plate lo. A gigantic tree, Wellingtonia glgantea, or Sequoia, has been in- troduced from California so recently as the year 1854, which is now being planted in every large garden, and does very well in some. It seems to delight in a soil where gold quartz exists, and then it attains the prodigious height of 400 feet, about the same height as the top of the cross on the dome of St.
. My garden, its plan and culture together with a general description of its geology, botany, and natural history. Gardening. 430 MV garden:. probably preferable. The effect of C. Deodara in a garden is well seen in plate lo. A gigantic tree, Wellingtonia glgantea, or Sequoia, has been in- troduced from California so recently as the year 1854, which is now being planted in every large garden, and does very well in some. It seems to delight in a soil where gold quartz exists, and then it attains the prodigious height of 400 feet, about the same height as the top of the cross on the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral. It is a tree which requires much light and air, with a damp soil; and the proximity of other trees, even at a considerable distance, impairs its symmetry and growth. I raised one from seed, which is now sixteen feet high, and its girth at the ground three feet; its growth is most symmetrical „iagigantea. ^^^ bcautiful (fig. 960). Mr. Jaclcson, at Bcech- wood Lodge near my garden, has a good specimen. A Wellingtonia was planted in the pleasure-grounds of Strathfield- saye by her Grace the Duchess of Wellington in April 1857. In January 1872 his Grace the Duke of Wellington had it measured, when it was found to be 30 feet high, 8 feet 7 inches round the trunk at the ground, and 5 feet 4 inches in circumference four feet from the ground. The diameter of the branches was 18 feet 6 inches. Two other trees, which were used to decorate the supper-table on the occasion of a ball at Apsley House, at which her Majesty and the late Prince Consort were present, were planted in October 1865 near the monument to the late Duke of Wellington. One is now 18 feet 4 inches high, the other 17 feet 9 inches; the circumference of the trunk at the base of the first being 3 feet 7 inches, of the second 4 feet, and the diameter of the branches 10 feet 6 inches and 10 feet respectively. As these trees were properly planted, and have been well cared for, they fairly e
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