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cultures, pronouncing it “one of the greatest ornaments of the western mountains, and the natives make baskets, hats, pouches, bags, bottles, mats for sleeping on, &c, of its strong foliage.” He also spent considerable time trying to figure out the origin of tribal-grown tobacco, which was tied up in a confusing knot of cultivated Indian tobacco (Nicotiana quadrivalvis), its many variants, and the smaller shrub-steppe native called coyote tobacco (N. attenuata). Along the way, he recognized that the N. quadrivalvis is “greatly esteemed by the different tribes for smoking, and is the only vegetable which the natives of the Columbia cultivate.” On his second trip to the Northwest, from 1830-34, Douglas’s two ascents of the Columbia were interspersed Nicotiana quadrivalvis (Indian tobacco) with trips to Edward's Botanical Register, 1827 California and Hawaii. During the course of these adventures, he managed to lose three years’ worth of field journals and many plant specimens in a canoe accident on the upper Fraser River, then to die on the Big Island when he slipped into a cattle pit-trap already occupied by an angry bull. His untimely demise caused a great outpouring of grief from both the 280 Rock Garden Quarterly Vol. 70 (3)

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Rock Garden Quarterly Summer 2012

Digital Quarterly
Expanding Panayoti's Axioms
Photo Contest 2012
Photographing Alpine Plants: A Landscape Point of View
NARGS 2013 Election Timetable
Rock Gardening from Scratch - Seeds
Kim Blaxland and the Violets of North America
Viola pedata
Violas, Kim, and Us - A Celebration
Cooking Native Japanese Plants
Carl Gehenio Memorial Trough Show
Fire in the Hole: Phlox across Colorado
Rebuilding a Rock Garden in Pittsburgh
A Remarkable Garden: David Douglas and the Shrub-steppe of the Columbia Plateau
Bookshelf - Reviews
Swedish Dreams
Treasurer's Report
Bulletin Board
2012 - Eastern Study Weekend: October, Pittsburgh

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