What to see in America . BuBBs Creek Falls, Sequoia Park California 483 thirty feet and a height of two hundred and four feet. Thegrove is a thirty-two-mile stage ride from the valley. Someof the other species of trees in the grove grow to enormoussize. INIany of the sugar and yellow pines are from four toten feet in diameter and nearly or quite two hundred feethigh. The formers cones are the largest produced by anyconifer. Occasionally they reach a length of almost twofeet. About a hundred miles south is the Gen. Grant NationalPark of Big Trees, and fifty miles farther on is the largeSequoia
What to see in America . BuBBs Creek Falls, Sequoia Park California 483 thirty feet and a height of two hundred and four feet. Thegrove is a thirty-two-mile stage ride from the valley. Someof the other species of trees in the grove grow to enormoussize. INIany of the sugar and yellow pines are from four toten feet in diameter and nearly or quite two hundred feethigh. The formers cones are the largest produced by anyconifer. Occasionally they reach a length of almost twofeet. About a hundred miles south is the Gen. Grant NationalPark of Big Trees, and fifty miles farther on is the largeSequoia National Park. In the latter is the General ShermanTree, reputed to be the oldest living thing on the face of theearth. It is one hundred and three feet in circumferenceand two hundred and eighty feet high. In volume of wood itseems to be the largest known tree. The sequoia is Naturesforest masterpiece. INIore than a million of these trees. The Fallen Monarch 484 What to See in America grow within the confines of the Sequoia Park, many of themmere, babes that are only a few score years old. At least12,000 are over ten feet in diameter. They do not attainfull vigor until they have reached the age of about 1500years, and a few are still sturdy which are three, four, andpossibly five thousand years old. In. a fruitful year a singletree may produce 1,000,000 seeds. The seeds are exceedinglysmall, and develop in cones only about two and one half incheslong. jMiddle-aged trees are commonly free of branchesfrom fifty to one hundred feet above the ground. The tip ofthe older trees has usually been smashed by lightning, and isa dead snag surrounded by living upward-turned w^ood resists decay marvelously, and a fallen tree willremain sound for hundreds of years. The General Grant Park is on the route from Sanger toKings River Canyon. The South Fork of the river flowsthrough a canyon that rivals the beauty of the Yosem
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