February 17, 1951 (vol. 61, iss. 90) • Page Image 2
… TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1951 Redwoods' Baby Granpa Grows Here A leftover from the pre-Ice Age world is being nursed to maturity at the University botanical gar- dens. Botanists are cautiously rearing a baby metasequoia, a tree orig- inally thought to be extinct. It's lineage goes back some 50 million years, and its ancestors are be- lieved to be the forerunners of the mighty redwood and the cyp- rus. THE FIRST evide...…

















































