diameter, ornamenting most of the twigs of 
bearing trees, never, however, on the same 
branchlet with the cones, nor are the rosettes 
exactly terminal, a bud with a few leaves 
usually being in the center. 
All the other pines, especially the White 
Pine group, have shorter or smaller tassels. 
In a few high localities from near Mount 
Shasta to the southern mountains of the state, 
and mingling with the Yellow Pine, is the 
fourth mammoth tree of this genus, the noble 
Jeffrey Pine (P. Jeffreyi) , so named in honor of 
its discoverer, also known as Black Pine, from 
the prevailing color of its bark. The tree is 
more rounded in outline than the last, with 
longer limbs and much larger cones, six to 
ten inches long, with larger prickles. The 
leaves and twigs are whitish in color, and 
when injured they exhale a pleasant, aromatic 
fragrance. 
It is these four pines that are falling before 
the ax and saw of the lumberman at a fear¬ 
ful rate, the undesired trees and young ones 
sharing the same fate through carelessness. 
Forest fires complete the devastation. When 
this quartette of magnificent trees is stripped 
from our mountains, but a ruin will remain, 
and the plains will be doomed. 
FOUR COAST PINES 
Another interesting group, or rather, line 
of trees, is the quartette of shore pines 
stretching from the sand dunes of San Diego 
to the glacier beds of Alaska, and which have 
been characterized as “the quartette of fight¬ 
ing, storm-beaten, but successful heroes bat¬ 
tling their way down to the foam-flecked sea.” 
Most of the population of California reside 
in or near the coast cities, and may readily 
meet with the^e pines and make their ac¬ 
quaintance. The curious can not help being 
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