. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1660 SEQUOIA but cut off, swept away and destroyed by the glacial age until only the local conditions prevailing in the Coast Kange and Sierras o£ California preserved the two re- maining species to the present time. According to Gray, S. Lamjsdorfii, the Sequoia whic
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 1660 SEQUOIA but cut off, swept away and destroyed by the glacial age until only the local conditions prevailing in the Coast Kange and Sierras o£ California preserved the two re- maining species to the present time. According to Gray, S. Lamjsdorfii, the Sequoia which is found in the miocene in Europe, appears in the miooene of Alaska, Greenland, Spitzbergen and Iceland, and it much resembles S. sempervirens. An- other fossil species, S. Sternbert/ii, found in Greenland, seems to have been the an- cient representative of -S. glijaiitrn. Ac- cording to the investi- gations of the United States Geological Department, the wood of the Arizona petrified forest is that of a species of Sequoia, whose wood went down under a primeval sea, was covered with sandstone, and rose again into the â present continent. If one asks how long ago these things happened, the geologist an- swers, "Millions of ; And it is the same in regard to the period when Sequoias grew in Greenland, Siberia and Great Britain. We measure that period only by vast and indefinite epochs. But the value and interest of the Se- quoias are greatly increased by a consideration of their place as the 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 square miles along the western side of the Sierra Nevada range. Compared with the enormous territory once occupied by species of Sequoias, the modern representatives of t
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