THE TORREY PINE 



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PROTECTED FROM THE WINDS BY SANDSTONE 



BLUFFS THE TORREY PINE GROWS TO ITS 



FULLEST HEIGHT. 



Photo by E. Roorback. 



been augmented by many an immigrant 

 from distant habitats which find the 

 needle-covered sand and the shade of the 

 trees quite to their liking. Fortunately 

 the state has become interested in this 

 scientifically valuable group so these 

 kindly protectors of shrubs will not be 

 crushed out by too vigorous upstarts. 

 Pine and Oak insurgent history will not 

 be repeated on this refuge island. The 

 shrubs are now of real benefit to the 

 trees by shielding the seedlings from the 

 winds and by conserving the moisture to 

 a great extent. Ceonothus fills the 

 canons with fragrance in the spring. 

 Toyon makes it gay in the winter. 

 Mahogany, sumac, laurel, manzanita 

 add their flower beauty. Yerba Santa 

 and several sages join the buckthorn and 

 chaparal. The tree poppies dapples the 

 sand with petals of gold. Clematis 

 trails long green vines over brown 



UNUSUALLY TALL AND SYMMETRICAL TORREY 

 PINES GROWING IN THE LEE OF A CLIFF. 



Photo by E. Roorbach. 



needles and hangs white blossoms far 

 down dark ravines. Nemophilia and 

 gillia drift daintilly over sheltered 

 slopes. Mesambryamtheums' succulent 

 foliage clings in many a sandy sift. 

 Lilac sand-verbena runs gaily among 

 tall clumps of blossoming grasses. 

 Maraposas stand poised gracefully above 

 opuntias barbed leaves. The Spanish 

 bayonet rears its thousand-tapered can- 

 delabra above velvety lichened rocks. 

 Ferns thrive a brief season under their lea. 

 San Diego, thanks to the generous 

 policy of the early days, includes 47,000 

 acres of land within its city limits. At 

 the present phenominal rate of growth, 

 there actually seems to be danger of 

 its outgrowing its tremendously large 

 grant of land deeded to it in the days 

 of its infancy. This little grove of rare 

 trees has been reserved as a permanent 

 city park a wild, lovely park, always to 



