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plant life from these regions, or overflow into them 
of any surplus human kind, bitten with the self- 
preservation creed, that though their shirts may be 
near, their skin is still nearer. 
The first of these is that Mexico still is, and for 
a long time has been, what the President of the: 
U.S. America describes as preoccupied in “ settling 
up her domestic affairs,” and this state of affairs 
spells a very disturbing process, both to man and 
beast. The second is that a condition of perpetual 
Civil War and the more peaceful mission of the 
collecting botanist do not go well together; and, 
thirdly, that those trees that have been brought back 
from those regions are, for the most part, very 
touchy about the climatic conditions they find 
themselves invited to face. Like Israel’s scattered 
race, in the words of Byron, 
They cannot quit their place of birth, 
They cannot live in other earth, 
And this, in many cases, seems to sound the keynote 
of their swan song, and to express the refrain of their 
failure. 
The P. Montezuma.—Of those that have flourished 
in favoured localities, perhaps the P. Montezuma 
and its three-leaved, in other aspects outward counter- 
part and fellow countryman the P. Patula (which, 
by the way, belongs to the Tedz group), with their 
long, pendulous, mane-like leaves, would be voted 
by any plebiscite of approved scenery seekers the 
most attractive among all existent Pines. Can we 
sound their praises higher ? 
P. Pszeupo-Strosus.—This Pine is so near, so very 
near, inso many of its similarities to the P. Montezuma, 
that we wonder, in our uninstructed innocence, why 
