Arbutus menziesii This handsome tree ranges from British Columbia along the Pacific coast to the Palomar Mountains in southern California. It was named by F.T. Pursh (in his Flora Americae Septenttrionalis) for Archibald Menzies, who was the first botanist of consequence to visit the Pacific coast and the first to collect a specimen of this tree. The drawing was made at home in the Napa Valley from one of our own trees. —Henry Evans
150 copies were printed and sell for $300. each.