CUPULIFERJE. 



SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



113 



voyage of Vancouver, who arrived in the Bay of San Francisco in November, 1792, and obtained a 

 supply of the wood of this tree for fuel,^ and the following year, being at Santa Barbara on the Califor- 



had some of the trees cut to repair one of his ships 



2 



The valleys and low hills of the California coast owe their greatest charm to this Oak-tree, which, 

 dotting their covering of vernal green or their brown summer surface with its low broad heads of pale 

 contorted branches and dense dark foHage, gives them the appearance of incomparably beautiful 

 parks. 



into the gardens of England in 1849 ^ by Karl Theodore Hartweg, it is occasionally 



Introduced into 

 cultivated in the temperate countries of western and southern Europ 



1 



" A tent was immediately pitched on the shore, wells were dug 



46) 



for obtaining water, and a party was employed in procuring fuel the Evergreen Oak seen by Fathers Kino and Juan de Torquemada 

 from small bushy holly-leaved oaks, the only trees fit for our pur- between the Colorado River and the coast of California, and men- 



pose 



j> 



(ii. 5.) 



ing 



» 



(ii. 454.) 



Noticia de la Califc 



2 "We here procured some stout knees from the holly-leaved ( 



oak, for the security of the Discovery^s head and bumkins; this, and h 



other occupations fully engaged our time until the evening of the E 

 17th, when preparations were made for sailing on the day foUow- 



Wislizen 



ifolia 



^ Jour. Hort. Soc, Londouy vi. 157, t. 



