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...VINEGAR TREE-Very funny...
Sequoia sempervirens is the scientific name for redwood. It grows only along a short section of the northern California coast, thriving in the cool, moist air. A relative, but no longer cut commercially, is Sequoia gigantea or "Big Tree." Mature redwoods are also Big Trees-300 ft. high, 30 ft. through the butt...
Raging lions snuff at prostrate heroines, or are driven from their kill by a famine-stricken cast. Serpents lazily uncoil from a most tropical-looking tree, and plop down a scant foot or so behind the ragged hero. Horn and his gun-bearer, Renchero, swing deftly over a pool alive with crocodiles, on a dangling vine. "And through this mighty drama of a primitive world runs the beautiful love romance of a boy and girl that grips the heart"--so runs the come-hither phraseology of the advertising manager...
...violence as symbolized by the tiger. Once the orangutans loot the hunter's hut but for the most part they are mannerly, sagacious, and amusing. With them in the cast are all sorts of other monkeys; they swarm across rivers, run up vines, keep a lookout in a tree and in the end are a deciding factor in the triumphant campaign against the tigers. Rango is intelligently thought out and beautifully photographed-a scientific document and a work of art at the same time, far more valuable though less exciting than the graphic Trader Horn. Best shot: a long...
Christmas trees, for which 700,000 spruce and balsam fir were sold last year. Average price to the grower is 6? (in the cities the retailer gets 50? to $10). Last season a group of growers in Coos County marketed cooperatively, tagged their trees with special holiday labels, realized as much as 15? per tree...