146 THE PINES 



There would seem to be no reason why it should not do 

 well when planted in its natural habitat, or why it should be 

 difficult to propagate or transplant, unless the lack of rain- 

 fall would make transplanting of doubtful success. If grow- 

 ing trees in a nursery and transplanting them should fail, 

 seed-sowing should certainly succeed. Experiments should 

 be made with both systems, for it is too valuable a tree to 

 suffer extinction, and, besides, it is more than possible that 

 no other tree as valuable can grow where it does. It is being 

 rapidly cut in Idaho and Montana, but no information can 

 be obtained that any effort is being made even to permit 

 natural reproduction to take place, much less any to aid 

 it. Unless something is done in that line the tree will, in 

 good time, be practically destroyed. 



There are several other White Pines in the mountain 

 regions of the West, but, excepting the great Sugar Pine, 

 they are of no great value, being small and scattered, and 

 all grow on elevations ranging from 7000 to 12,000 feet 

 above the sea. Not much is known of them and their use- 

 fulness is largely conjectural. 



SUGAR PINE : Plnus lanibertiana 



WHILE this tree is best known by the common name 

 here accepted, it has seven others, all suggestive of its dis- 

 tinctive features, but none so appropriately bestowed as 

 Sugar Pine. John Muir, in his delightful book entitled 

 "Our National Parks " (page 112), says : " The sugar, which 

 gives name to the tree, exudes from the heartwood on 

 wounds made by fire or the axe, and forms irregular crisp 

 white candy-like masses. To the taste of most people it is 

 as good as maple sugar, though it cannot be eaten in large 

 quantities." 



Its natural home is along the Coast and Cascade ranges 

 of mountains in Oregon, and from there southward along 

 the Coast and Sierra Nevada ranges to southern California. 

 It is seldom found below 3000 or more than 10,000 feet 



