DIGGER OR GRAY PINE 



Pinus sabiniana* DOUG. 



Another nut pine, the Gray or Digger 

 Pine, found commonly on the slopes of 

 the Tehachapi Pass and northward, ex- 

 tends in scattered groups southward to 

 the Mt. Pinos region in Ventura County 

 and the northern portions of Los An- 

 geles County. The conspicuous features 

 of the tree are, the relatively scanty 

 bluish-gray foliage, the large heavy 

 cones with their chestnut-brown in- 

 curved scale-tips, the usual elongated 

 V-shaped fork and leaning trunk. Com- 

 paritively early in the life of the tree the 

 main stem-axis ceases its growth and 

 two lateral branches below begin to 

 grow out and take its place, giving the 

 tree its unconventional, broom-like 

 forked form. 



Says Jepson: "It makes an unsatis- 

 factory lumber when sawn, on account 



"Joseph Sabine, after whom the tree was named by 

 David Douglas, was Secretary of the London Horticul- 

 tural Society. 



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