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Re: growing GIANT SEQUOIA- Sequoiadendron giganteum in India

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From: Tsu Dho Nimh
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:55
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begin  reply "gregpresley" <gpresley@iea.com> wrote:

>Flourish might be a 'generous' word - but they "might"  survive. Actually,
>somewhere in the east,  perhaps at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, they
>actually have been able to make the Sequoia's close cousin, the Redwood
>grow. And that climate is nothing like the foggy California coast.

There is a redwood or sequoia (I forget which) growing in a
really old part of Norfolk VA.  It was brought back by a ship's
captain as a seedling in the late 1800s and is a most impressive
specimen.  Botany students make pilgrimages there. 


Tsu Dho Nimh

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From: Tsu Dho Nimh <abacaxi@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: growing GIANT SEQUOIA- Sequoiadendron giganteum in India
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