diameter, ornamenting most of the twigs of 

 bearing trees, never, however, on the same 

 branchlet with the cones, nor are the rosettes 

 exactly terminal, a bud with a few leaves 

 usually being in the center. 



All the other pines, especially the White 

 Pine group, have shorter or smaller tassels. 



In a few high localities from near Mount 

 Shasta to the southern mountains of the state, 

 and mingling with the Yellow Pine, is the 

 fourth mammoth tree of this genus, the noble 

 Jeffrey Pine (P. JeiTreyi), so named in honor of 

 its discoverer, also known as Black Pine, from 

 the prevailing color of its bark. The tree is 

 more rounded in outline than the last, with 

 longer limbs and much larger cones, six to 

 ten inches long, with larger prickles. The 

 leaves and twigs are whitish in color, and 

 when injured they exhale a pleasant, aromatic 

 fragrance. 



It is these four pines that are falling before 

 the ax and saw of the lumberman at a fear- 

 ful rate, the undesired trees and young ones 

 sharing the same fate through carelessness. 

 Forest fires complete the devastation. When 

 this quartette of magnificent trees is stripped 

 from our mountains, but a ruin will remain, 

 and the plains will be doomed. 



FOUR COAST PINES 



Another interesting group, or rather, line 

 of trees, is the quartette of shore pines 

 stretching from the sand dunces of San Diego 

 (o the glacier beds of Alaska,~and which have 

 been characterized as "the quartette of fight- 

 ing, storm-beaten, but successful heroes bat- 

 tling their way down to the foam-flecked sea." 



Most of the population of California reside 

 in or near 'the coast cities, and may readily 

 meet with these pines and make their ac- 

 quaintance. The curious can not help being 



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