_P. INSIGNIS, P. PATULA ‘41 
P. Raprata or Insicnis.—In spite of the contested 
nature of its name, this Pine from Monterey has been 
and will be, I strongly suspect, to most alive of over 
twenty years of age now, still known and made 
allusion to by its old name of P. Insignis. By that 
name we have known it, by that name where it grows 
in plenty it has been always familiarly greeted on 
sight. If we have been wrong in calling it Insignis, 
we have many of us been wrong through a long er- 
roneous life, and now is too late in the day to change 
our habits and call it by any other name. Old friends 
cannot be expected to find anything welcome or 
irradiating in the change. Of such commanding 
strength is force of habit! Itrequires something even 
more compelling than royal decree or stroke of pen 
to change such a widely established nomenclature. 
The Insignis is a tree that undoubtedly favours 
sea air, and grows at its best on our warmer coast 
lines; at the same time it can flourish, and has flour- 
ished, in some more Midland situations, and often it 
has been observed best, despite a saltless influence, 
in the more humid environment of lakes dnd ponds. 
One tribute more must we pay to this so-called 
“remarkable Pine,’’ and it is this, that where it 
succeeds it seems to luxuriate in the most superabund- 
ant and brilliant wealth of grass-green effects of colour, 
and to look as if it absolutely revelled in an irradiating 
glow of health, strength, and vitality. In this, its 
state of prime perfection, we may well say of it, in 
Old Testament metaphor, “that its glory covers 
the heavens, and that the earth is full of its praise.” 
P. PaTuLa.— 
And their delectable things shall not profit, but they are their own 
witnesses,— ISAIAH. 
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The P. PatuLa may be looked upon as the analogue 
of the long-leaved Himalayan P. Longifolia, to which 
