42 PINES 



allusion has been made in discussing the P. Gerardiana. 

 We have also compared it, from a scenic point of 

 view, v^ith another Mexican Pine, the five-leaf-in-a- 

 cluster P. Montezuma. 



Both it and the P. Teocote are only to be found 

 flourishing with us in places of exceptional climatic 

 mildness. 



The P. Patula at Carclew, Cornwall (the residence 

 of Colonel Tremayne), is perhaps the most attractive 

 sight that any Pine can display. It, and the best- 

 growing types of the Montezuma — which are, how- 

 ever, generally smaller-grown specimens with us — 

 would wring a beauty prize from the verdict of any 

 aesthetic body of jurymen, in any competition of 

 Pines. As a timber product it may not acquire merit 

 in the eye of the sterner sylviculturist, but an apology 

 for its presence anywhere that it will grow is con- 

 tained in the verse of Isaiah. It is its own witness. 



The P. Teocote is a shorter-leaved, smaller-coned 

 edition of the Patula. Diligent search on the part 

 of Elwes and Henry has, it appears, only resulted in 

 finding two or three specimens growing in Cornish 

 or S. Irish climates. Only the cosiest of corners, in 

 the most comfortable of sheltered positions, will give 

 either of them a chance of life with us. 



We are told that ocotey in Mexican vernacular, 

 signifies much the same thing as tceda does in the 

 Latin language, and to which we have referred. 



P. RiGIDA. — 



Dark behind it rose the forest, 



Rose the black and gloomy pine trees. 



Rose the firs with cones upon them. 



Longfellow, Song of Hiawatha . 



Whether Longfellow had in mind this particular Pine 

 when he wrote his Indian Edda, we do not pretend 



