40 WEST- A MEXICAN 



indicates the exact range of best fruit lands in cen- 

 tral and northern California. 



The large seeds of this pine were formerly used for 

 food by coast tribes of Indians, a practice now entirely 

 discontinued, since the aborigine prefers the white man's 

 flour; hence * 'Digger Pine" is properly disused. The 

 permanence and prevalence of the striking whiteness of 

 these trees, causing them to resemble masses of fog on the 

 plains, or bands of clouds in the mountain canons of 

 California, fully justify Gray-Leaf Pine for this beautiful, 

 white-foliaged tree. 



Croup 2. Closed-Cone Pines. 



Serotince. 



Cones in whorls or circles about the tree and 

 limbs, usually quite persistent, strongly declined, 

 oblique and gibbons, with tubercled scales, tardily 

 opening, usually remaining long-closed, holding 

 the seed, which is, nevertheless, preserved in good 

 germinating order for many years 30 or more. 

 Small trees mostly crowded into dense groves, hence 

 tall and slender; maturing fruit when quite young. 

 Leaves in 3's or 2's. Four Species: 



No. 22 Monterey Pine P. radiata, Dou. 1837. 



P. insignis, Loudon, 1844. 



This is one of the four sea-loving and sea-nurtured 

 pines of the Pacific Coast, from Pescadero, near San 

 Francisco, southward to Monterey and San Simeon 



