. The Canadian field-naturalist. J^.i.^fl '"^ ""^^\^*- ^iJi vir" „ i«. Fig. 1.—PIONEER TYPE. Arbutus Menziessii, Pursh This arbutus is a good example of the open grown tree of the natural park-lands of the southern end of Vancouver Island. The limbs stretching forth all around the stem denote : hat the tree in early life had plenty of room. The second growth Douglas Fir is evidently of recent origin. Locality, Rocky Point, Metchosin, Vancouver Island, PIONEER TYPES. The arbutus is a tree the habits and characteristics of which are of absorb- ing interest to the nature
. The Canadian field-naturalist. J^.i.^fl '"^ ""^^\^*- ^iJi vir" „ i«. Fig. 1.—PIONEER TYPE. Arbutus Menziessii, Pursh This arbutus is a good example of the open grown tree of the natural park-lands of the southern end of Vancouver Island. The limbs stretching forth all around the stem denote : hat the tree in early life had plenty of room. The second growth Douglas Fir is evidently of recent origin. Locality, Rocky Point, Metchosin, Vancouver Island, PIONEER TYPES. The arbutus is a tree the habits and characteristics of which are of absorb- ing interest to the nature student. Its occurrence and dis- tribution in these lati- tudes is fittingly des- cribed by John Muir ("Steep Trails," Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston and New York, 1918, p. 235) as "standing there like some lost or runaway native of the tropics, naked and painted, beside the dark mossy ocean of northland ; On the southern end of Vancouver Island, in the vicinity of Victoria and on many of the adjacent islands of the Straits of Juan de Fuca and the Gulf of Georgia, the pion- eer type of arbutus grew as large single trees, scattered on the plains, on the margins of the forest and on the sparsely wooded crests of hills and rocky elevations. The forms of these arbutus denote that they have grown in the open and were not at any time in early life crowded by other trees. A good ex- ample of the type is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. Ottawa, The Ottawa-Field-Naturalists Club
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