The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 17, 1901, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL. % 1 HERE IS THE STORY OF THE MOST REMARKABLE | COLLECTION OF TREES IN CALIFORNIA, PROBABLY IN | THE WORLD. RARE SPECI- | MENS FROM ALMOSTEVERY | PART OF THE GLOBE ARE TO BE FOUND GROWING IN | CAPITOL PARK IN SACRA- MENTO. IN THE HOTHOUSE | : NURSERY ARESOMETREAS- /CYOG(._:/ URES THAT WOULD MAKE rvsvE A FLORIST'S HEAD SWIM cARDEN WITE DELIGHT. IT ALL an BEARS OUT THE STATE- MENT THAT “CALIFORNIA CAN GROW ANYTHING.” Jornn week 1 followed the r through the Capi- t Sacramento, the grounds in the Californians the e pointed out trees from rway spruce edars of Lebanon; from the aged trees of Japan Sequota Gigantea, of whose majestic form towers £ 2 ve them a and hold out the mag n s brawny welcome of the A 3 € litan grove below. 1 2 — fJ li es of our State’s af- i i . = Filog | ¥ out of the Capitol e ] 7 WA "\J. 1e countries of the wi congress of natfons of 350 1 istoric erest street through this nts of green beck t the white from other three sides of At the rear of e The voung some day in the enits ng place, whose ss ns will make it a fam- that are planted k are the malaya stinguished by their cone- the rose of ne. A row ot rder the park. It chose 1o repre- lence of the bride. ron; the lly of the of this rose is south mel, along the shore of the The pgme Sharon was e times to express a ¥ beauty and fruit- : Q’?’I John Scroggs, the re the cedars of Leb- every one. The s of the Lord are full e cedars of Lebanon, which he ed—where the birds make their o were buflt ot this h in prophesying emple by the Ro- ¥ doors, O Lebanon, fire may devour thy cedars.” on’s palace was supported by pil- se cedars. It is referred se of the forest of Leba- SEQUO 5 L 2 Bia = TRie, BUSHNELL wg}; the great has fallen, but these some of her histeric trade- from the famous ere the Jordan has ese trees made history for ns of Lebanon that e in the records of Holy tree, with its well groomed, t of green, de- . ight of the ages. his climate with great were bro of L SAN/IRE banon, w </PRES,, The monkey tree from Africa is a curi- tinels about the park. The foliage does lovers strolling through the more se- Gettysburg, Pa.; Chickamauga, Ga.; It is the only tree a monkey can- not grow closely together, and they wear cluded by-paths seem to add needed lifo Lookout Mountaln, Tenn.. Mission 3 ity. 5 . velers declare that none OSltY. It | an almost deflant air and form & StONE to this historlc picture and make it sym- Ridge, Tenn.; Fort Sl;un;lart,‘;l‘e?n.k““ und anywhere o match them. FO0 0 L 0 of the linden tree, the contrast to the flowing draperiés of the .o ang real, derness, Va.; Cold Harbor, Va.; Knox- an eir about them that holds ville, Tenn.; Kenesaw Mountain, Ga:; German and English, fill their poetical spruces and cedars. Strength ratherthan " nromovia) Grove contains trees from . sphere with all the grace and poetry of grace marks the sequoias. Yet thelr in- 4 following battlefields: Fort Sumter, Wlnchesterz ;L.B;ulnn;& .Ga_!: Cle;iar motion that has been attributed to it dependence commands our respect. The C.; Bull Run, Va.; Balls Bluft, Va.; Creek,' Va.; Big uq.. L3 r:nGn,. through the ages by romantic songsters. ambitious sequolas are destined to OUt- po,iir.’ erry, Va.: Springfleld; Mo.; o0 Nashville, Tenn.; sz:nn:a 1, Ga The sequola in the Capitol Park were rank in height the dome of the Capltol pes Ridge, Ark.; Shiloh, Tenn.; Seven Fetersburg, Va.; Five Forks, Va.; Anm- transplanted. twenty-five years ago from itself—240 feet—not such a feat for these Pines, Va; Cumberland Gap, Tenn.; dersonville, Ga.; Appomattox, Va.; Ar- vigorous, towering tree, marked " o0 ¢orects. Thelr growth for glants, who have been found 3% feet tall N yern Hul, Va.; Cedar Mountain, Va,; lInston Natlonal Cemetery, Va., and stry is unknown to the beholder. spruce is a tree that commands atten It is from this spe- masts for ships are hewn. It is he great Nor gth rather than grace. years was slow, for systematized prun- in their native forests. Fort Donelson, Tenn.; Antietam, Md.; Mount Vernon, Va. ‘ lia contributes the rubber tree from | o' ool e o not to thelr rugged An occasional loiterer hers and thers, Perryville, Ky.; Monocacy, Md.; Chan-— In the hothouse nursery among the is @erived the rubber of commerce. . a group of merry children rolling down cellorsville,Va.; Corinth, Miss.; Fredericks- treasures are some poppies brought from —a large umbrelia grove and the They are thriving now, however, and the velvety terraces or gamboling on burg, Va.; Stone River, Tenn.; Spottsyl- Palestine by an enthusiastic Sacra- r ¥ e grandifiors. they stand here and there like huge sen- the sward and at dusk a casual couple of vania Courthouse, Va.; Vicksburg, Miss.; mentan. The flower is a cherry red, re- ¢ Australjan and New Zealand trees sembling the wild Californfa poppy in rated as the rarest and most valuable. % ~F <hape and the arrangement of its petals. alued at $1000 each. There are - l Experiments are constantly going on e | @ SNARE TRAT LOST.ITS LIPE FOR-MLUBIC. [iir == xce bricata | .| The remarkable fertility of the soil, com- The sago palm, the sago of commerce, JRING our first year in Colorado,” was just a consciousness that something tlve.'dn re»‘;iredhhs Y:iesdt.hl;ins it lrtom sld: bined with the climate, force such a - - . ’, o, W o mptoms of K b of its new habitation as readily | said the ex-ranchman’s wife, “my w?_slt:x‘:’s‘fg;.c“m“u e G rg“slesem&::s 05 aonggr. s m‘}rmcnkam oof | rapia development of floral wealth on were its native land. daughter and myself were desper- r * the snake began to writhe and shiver, as | Scroggs that he Is kept at his wit's end 3 X 2 ately lonesome, and for the girl's &nd drew suddenly back. A huge snake i i, gistress; finally it uncoiled and glided 3 ed by a wide variety sake more than for my own I urged my Was coiled up close under the window. Its away out of sight in the underbrush. arranging and rearranging the grounds ces and shrubs—palms, bamboos, J&P- | hushand to try his utmost and get a plano body was perfectly still, its head poised ‘‘When I told my discovery to the male | to make room for them all. ¢ quince, ferns and fancy evergreens. | brought there, A Colorado ranch was then in a listening attitude and swaying slight- Portion of the family they wWere all ready | Tne camellla bushes are almost as to that snake and kill him at ¢ magnolias from Japan| much farther from any point of civiliza- 1y from sildent; :hlde u:“ :nm;hythm!o thewflar;ihoé;;rm‘;my_ ButT forbade thai: | tall as shade trees. Along one side of tics wholly their own. In | tion than it is to-day and for a long time movement wi 5B irsrd not See 1 desired to make a further study of his | the park hundreds of kinds of roses the feat se ,after this all at once. I took in the situation Jove for music, and I did so. - I prepared biossom forth full and | {n¢ feal seemed hopeless, but “‘1;‘:f;u;fent siter 1 returned to the window and stood my daughter o 100k for his Advent again, | Vary in coloring from pure white to the there for several minutes watching the and his snakeship did not disappoint us. | dark red velvat. found its way to our wilderness. creature out of range of his eye and won- tched hi > rb blossoms, which vary | "My daughter bad a fairly good musical dering 2 my presence would make [T M o) Boa resvous. and Again ang| “The dahlia is the coming flower,” de- 1 2 chaste white to choc- | education before we went to the ranch felt and divert its interest from the music. again we tested the quality of his musical ' clared Scroggs, as he picked me a bunch ¢ naked loveliness®is very, and after the arrival of the plano she Butno: I don’t believe even speech would tastés. We proved beyond the shadow of of variegated and brightly colored ones. | - have broken that spell. The creature hat low, sweet music, mino; st the verdure of the park. | Spent ail her lelsure time at it. One eveh- cloin.q daged, entranced, fascinated! O O Nasomated that snale sad | “We will have as many varieties as we ke dead trees that have given ing, about two weeks after it came, she ~“After watching him fof a time I went that anything lively or noisy repelled him. hrysanthemums, To be sure, i S60% Son o . had spent a couple of hours practicing quietly over to my daughter and withe — <1 arow. positively. interested im the ::“ bad s sy A i es to produce the blossoms. some of Chopin’s waltzes; then she struck out startling her by so much as & hint study amd even found myself bestowing | tNeY are a little | off=s this sacrificial offering | into the nocturnes. Chopin is my favorite ggm?:ym:(raa?eg; md:sgz;e[:yll uk&d l!z;lr to lnson lor énlxman pmz o;n th& ren‘t‘:le. But | personally I can't say I admire them, but ‘rom e nor t resultes n no goo« or e other mem- o among the composers. While I sat there J0RISL 0T T 0 TO0TenZe Jrom, the mimor 1t resulted in Mo oo Bt hare oy rom | they are the fad. JI the leaves shoot forth and | listening intently, my elbow resting on & anq strike into one or two lively airs. She ings, and I must finish my story by saying | It 1 easy to belleve In the possibilities r work of making sap in their | table beside me and my head on my hand, did so, and I returned and watched the that the creature's love for Chopin's noc- | of any flower or shrub or creeping vine L 3 1 felt myself impelled to go to the window reptile. turnes cost him his life during on f » s laboratories of nature to sup- | and look out. I had heard mo sound. ev- | CAftér 3 couple of minutes of the rat- wisie under our Window. -New “¥ork | after you bave visited Capitol Park. ; - ¢ ply the blossoms the following spring. | erything was as still as death, but there tling music the snake began to grow res- Sun. = ISABEL FRASER.