Show ALI AJ IJ FOR FOK A SINGLE TREE B except tor for two national reservations made for the conservation of 0 eura curative tive springs the smallest national park is the general grant it ii contains only 4 square miles and was mas created to protect one tree cut but the general grant tree is worth a rational park all to itself it is a giant sequoia and next to one is the biggest and the oldest living ting in the wide vide world it is 36 35 feet through from bark to bark and feet high it is not tar far from years old the one living thing that is bigger arid and older is the general sher flierman Sli erman man tree in the se anoia national park a few miles to tile the east that Is a toot foot and a halt half thicker and 16 feet higher the general grant tree is not the only in the little national park nark however it is the biggest ot of I 1 1 fine grove of sequoia pequo a rees the general grant national park is a spot p ot ot of profound beauty it is a wild gardea ot of wonderful luxuriance in which all the great trees for or which california is famous attain their largest dimensions and Is glorious in ill summer r with the bloom ot of innumerable shrubs and flowering plants it Is a calm and silent place in which cani camping ping out is a luxury lor for it almost never rains during the camping season small though tile the park Is it has its many visitors more alore than people visited it last year 2000 more than went there the year before more than 2000 automobiles brought throngs into the park to do reverence to the mighty tree this no show place where visitors whirl in a and whirl out most blost of those thosa who come come to sta stay y a while there is a public camp where one may stay as at a hotel and there are hundreds of charming private camps |