trees. What instinct brings 

 them here, year after year, the 

 descendants each season of those 

 who came the previous fall, no 

 man, not even the wisest of the 

 scientists, can say. About three 

 miles from the historic town 

 which was the first capital of 

 California, upon the souther- 

 most corner of that blue cres- 

 cent so often likened to Naples, 

 lies another town, called Pa- 

 cific Grove, the second half of 

 the name derived from the 

 splendid forests of Pinus Insig- 

 nis which cover the entire pen- 

 insula. There is a lighthouse 

 out beyond the village, and the 

 road to it is lined on either side 

 with unusually beautiful pines. 

 It is upon a certain group of 



