often scattered well over the regions; so we 
will present them somewhat as we find them, 
associated in given regions of the mountain 
slopes or in lines along the seashore. 
But while we may profitably ignore botan¬ 
ical groupings, we should not neglect the 
botanical names, for they are the only ones 
that are in universal use by educated persons 
of all nations: and they are not difficult to 
pronounce if one considers that in Latin every 
letter has its proper sound, none are silent, 
and every vowel is in a separate syllable. 
In the use of English names the most ap¬ 
propriate have been selected,—those agreed 
upon by the largest number of dendrologists. 
FOUR LARGE LUMBER PINES 
What Californian does not know the Sugar 
Pine (P. Lambertiana) at a glance? Seen 
from the car window while threading the 
canyons of the Sierra, or as noted from the 
Yosemite stage, its massive trunk, finely 
checked in bark and limbless for ioo to 200 
feet, its large upper limbs outreaching and 
suspending aloft, the large, long, russet cones, 
the tree is one of the most interesting 
known. It adds greatly to the impression to 
reflect that the Sugar Pine is by far the largest 
pine, with largest fruit, in all the world. 
Trees are not rare measuring 250 to 300 
feet high, with a diameter of 10 to 12 feet, 
the cones 15 to 20 inches long. The lum¬ 
ber is very valuable, white, soft, and easily 
manufactured. Sugar Pine is nqxt in value 
to the celebrated White Pine of the great 
forests that but recently covered the region 
of the Great Lakes. The sad reflection comes 
that the same shrewd business men who have 
destroyed those great forests are now seek¬ 
ing Sugar Pine claims, to repeat here the dis- 
