Where the Giant sequoia of Prospect Park is now

May 30, 2019

∙ Paid

Money is a hell of a drug, amiright? I mean, can you imagine being like, I’m going to transplant one of ~the most massive species of tree ever~ from its home in California to the East Coast?

But that is in fact precisely what one John DeWolf did, nurturing a Giant sequoia in a Prospect Park greenhouse, where he was Superintendent. In 1911 (or 1930, depen…

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