350 FOREST TREES OF THE PACIFIC SLOPE. 



with thin sapwood ; exceedingly heavy, dense, and fine-grained. Very suitable 

 for small ornamental turnery and other woodwork, but not used for any purpose. 



Fig. 164. — Heteromeles arbutifolia. 



As a part of the chaparral cover of low. dry slopes and rocky gulches, or in 

 the groves formed by its larger growth, this species is of considerable service in 

 a region too scantily protected against erosion. 



