often scattered well over the regions ; so we 

 will present them somewhat as we find them, 

 associated in given regions of the mountain 

 slopes or in lines along the seashore. 



But while we may profitably ignore botan- 

 ical groupings, we should not neglect the 

 botanical names, for they are the only ones 

 that are in universal use by educated persons 

 of all nations : and they are not difficult to 

 pronounce if one considers that in Latin every 

 letter has its proper sound, none are silent, 

 and every vowel is in a separate syllable. 



In the use of English names the most ap- 

 propriate have been selected, those agreed 

 upon by the largest number of dendrologists. 



FOUR LARGE LUMBER PINES 



What California!! does not know the Sugar 

 Pine (P. Lainbertiana) at a glance? Seen 

 from the car window while threading the 

 canyons of the Sierra, or as noted from the 

 Yosemite stage, its massive trunk, finely 

 checked in bark and limbless for 100 to 200 

 feet, its large upper limbs outreaching and 

 suspending aloft, the large, long, russet cones, 

 the tree is one of the most interesting 

 known. It adds greatly to the impression to 

 reflect that the Sugar Pine is by far the largest 

 pine, with largest fruit, in all the world. 



Trees are not rare measuring 250 to 300 

 feet high, with a diameter of 10 to 12 feet, 

 the cones 15 to 20 inches long. The lum- 

 ber is very valuable, white, sft, and easily 

 manufactured. Sugar Pine is next in value 

 to the celebrated White Pine of the great 

 forests that but recently covered the region 

 of the Great Lakes. The sad reflection comes 

 that the same shrewd business men who have 

 destroyed those great forests are now seek- 

 ing Sugar Pine claims, to repeat here the dis- 



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