. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 236 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS long. inch broad, maturing the first autumn; scales 14- seeds elliptic, narrowly margined, 2 lines long. Confined to northern and central Coast Ranges of southern Oregon and northern California.—Introduced to Great Britain about 1848 by Hartweg. In the East it is probably not hardy north of Virginia. It is a handsome tree with spreading branches and yew-like dark green foliage. It holds the
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. 236 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS long. inch broad, maturing the first autumn; scales 14- seeds elliptic, narrowly margined, 2 lines long. Confined to northern and central Coast Ranges of southern Oregon and northern California.—Introduced to Great Britain about 1848 by Hartweg. In the East it is probably not hardy north of Virginia. It is a handsome tree with spreading branches and yew-like dark green foliage. It holds the record as the tallest tree in the world, at least so far as actual measurements have been made, one specimen in Humboldt County, California, measuring 340 feet, according to Sargent. Greater heights assigned to species of Eucah'ptus were erroneous. It reproduces by seeds and by stump-sprouts, the latter numer- ous and remarkably persistent, often producing merchantable lumber. Var. adpressa, Carr. (var. albo-spica, Hort.). Smaller tree with shorter branches: leaves shorter and broader, slightly appressed; young leaves and tips of branchlets creamy-white, glaucescent when older. Var. glauca, R. Smith. Blue Redwood. Foliage with a decidedly bluish cast. 2. S. gigantea, DC. (S. Washingtonia, Sudw. S. Wellingtonia, Seem. Wellingtonia gigantea, Lindl. Washingtonia californica, Winslow). Giant Sequoia (California Big Tree). Fig. 57. Tree 150- 275, rarely to 325 feet high, with trunk 10-30 feet in diameter; crown pyramidal on young trees, rounded at summit or much broken in age; bark cinnamon- red, 1-2 feet thick, divided into rounded ridges 4-5 feet wide, corresponding to the lobes of the buttressed base and separating into loose fibrous scales; branches pendulous, cord-like: leaves scale-like, 3^-H inch long, sharp-pointed, adherent to the stem which they thickly clothe, the tip free: cone ovoid, 2-3^:^ inches long, 13^2~2 inches broad, opening only slightly, maturing the second
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