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21_90 Rancho Chico Chico Forestry Station: - Sequoia gigantea, a little grove of trees, 50 - 60 ft. high & 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 ft. diam. A hot north wind hit them hard in July 5 or 6 years ago, some of those on the outside showing dead limbs, even great patches of brown. - Sequoia sempervirens, a few trees, 80 - 90 ft. high. Thest look happier. - Cork Oaks, a small plantation. They insist on behaving like vines, the tops turning down. - Catalpas dying out. - Box elders dying out. - Douglas Spruces, doing well. |
21_91 June 1, 1910. - Vitis californica, trunk 15 in. diameter, sent by Colonel Royce from Rancho Chico to State Exhibit in S.F. [San Francisco] - Valley Oak. Quercus lobata Bth. Colonel Royce says that large oak limbs will suddenly snap off in warm weather. I think he speaks of Valley Oak but possibly of Blue Oak. These are the two oaks on the Rancho Chico, everywhere common. I suggested that the limbs were rotten? but he repleid emphatically no! that this phenomenon related to sound limbs. This is a remarkable phenomenonof which I have heard before |
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