36 PINES 
more puzzling hieroglyphic formation—both of them 
culled from the deep depths of dead languages— — 
denote Torch Pines, or Firebrands. Both of them, 
too, have similar significances, and are associated 
with those Pine trees that. are most super-abundant 
in resinous qualities. 
When it was thought befitting in an olden day, 
where primitive customs prevailed, to requisition a 
little illumination for the purpose of a more decorous 
carrying out of certain ceremonies, or orgies, as the 
case might be, these sort of Pitch Pine trees and their 
boughs were articles in great request. 
If it was a marriage ceremony that was contem- 
plated, a nuptial torch (teda jugalis) was deemed an 
essential; a custom, we might add, that has its con- 
tinuance in a modern-day world. The torch dance 
at a royal wedding in the Prussian Court has been 
accounted by eye-witnesses the most picturesque 
episode of its drawn-out proceedings. 
‘If a torchlight procession was considered the right 
thing, or regarded as a desirable adjunct in the in- 
terests of artistic effect—at one time, perhaps, on 
the occasion of a conquering hero’s return, at another 
as an obbligato to the obsequies of a defunct celebrity, 
or even maybe as a more commonly employed ac- 
companiment of various other kinds of jaunts, 
pageants, carnivals, or masquerades, either of a festal 
or funeral nature—these Torch Pines (¢e@de@ ar- 
dentes) were the fiery beacons that lent colour to the 
scenes, and gave the whole proceedings a tone. 
From many of these trees enumerated in the 
Tede group, this obligation was expected to be 
forthcoming. They were depended upon, before the 
dawning days of electricity, acetylene, or kerosene 
convenience, to contribute those rays of primitive 
light that were required, and were all that at that 
time was obtainable to impart dignity and add 
