conifers. SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 97 



large sweet slightly resinous seeds were an important article of food for the Indians of California, who 

 gathered them in great quantities. 1 



Pinus Sabiniana was discovered in 1831 on the mountains near Monterey by David Douglas, who 

 introduced it the following year into Europe and named it in honor of Joseph Sabine, 2 secretary of 

 the Horticultural Society of London, in whose garden at Chiswick it was first cultivated. 3 Pinus 

 Sabiniana may be occasionally seen in European collections, where it has attained considerable size, 4 

 but the rich soil of the California foothills and the long, hot, dry summers of California are evidently 

 required to develop its characteristic and peculiar beauties. 



1 Newberry, Popular Science Monthly, xxxii. 35 (Food and Fibre him, than at any other period of its history. He was the author of 



Plants of the North American Indians). — Muir, The Mountains of a number of papers on botany and zoology published in the Trans- 



California, 148. actions of the Horticultural Society and of the Linnaean Society, 



- Joseph Sabine (1770-1837) was born in London, and, although including several devoted to the early history of the Chrysanthe- 



a lawyer by profession, devoted much attention to natural history. mum. Sabinea, a genus of trees and shrubs of the Pea family, 



In 1810 he was made secretary of the Horticultural Society of natives of the West Indies, was named for him by De Candolle. 



London, filling this position during the years when the society was 3 Loudon, Arb. Brit. iv. 2246, f. 2138-2147. 



more active and successful in introducing and cultivating exotic 4 Fowler, Gard. Chron. 1872, 1326. — Gard. Chron. ser. 3, v . 44, 



plants in its gardens at Hammersmith and Chiswick, established by f . 6. 



