THE SCOTS PINE 55 
tenacity of purpose a virtue. Indeed, it seems as 
much at home upon a seashore as a sand-born courser 
ambling over the inhospitable tracts of his native 
wastes in Arabia Deserta. 
By Pliny the Second, and in modern days by the 
Portuguese, the Pinaster has been called and regarded 
as the Wild Pine, while the Pinea has been looked 
upon and designated as its cultivated counterpart. 
Indeed, so far has this idea been carried, and to such 
alow depth from the position of a stately tree has the 
P. Pinea sunk, that at one time it was associated 
linguistically with the common and garden Pine 
Apple. It might be adduced that it is hardly as 
derogatory to the dignity of a Maritime Pine that 
a Pine Apple should put forward a questionable claim 
of relationship to it, as it is that an outcast nettle 
should have established a direct kinsmanship to our 
stately Elm. It should be added, that, in spite of 
the indignities, both have soared above and survived 
the ignominy of the inferences. 
Tue Scots PINE 
The Scottish Fir 
In murky file rears his inglorious head, 
And blots the fair horizon. 
Mason, 
P. SyLvestris (Scots Pine) is the indigenous repre- 
sentative of that old-established trio of Conifers in 
our midst that go by the names of Scots, Austrian, 
and Corsican. 
The three are evidently trees of affinity, but of 
different geographical habitat. They require here 
but little comment and less explanation. We should 
like to record that we are by no means in agreement 
with the drift of the poet Mason’s idea of it. We 
have only quoted it as an expression of opinion that 
