Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 123
o marketable shape it is worth about $30a thousand feet. It is stated of one tree thatit contained 537,000 feet of lumber, and atthe value given it would, therefore, be worth$16,110. We need not wonder, then, that thesequoia groves are rapidly disappearing beforethe ax of the lumberman. The… … two big-trees were planted in Central Park, New-York City, but the climate there is evidently notsuited to them, for they are nowonly thirty-five feet in height andfourteen inches in diameter. Theymay be seen to the left as onedescends the steps from the mallto the lake. But it is our object to…
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