In this country it has come about that no one knows what he is reading about when " yellow pine " is referred to. A number of very different species are called yellow pine. White pine has, however, hitherto been spared the endless confusion which seems inseparable from the use of common names. White pine has been Pinus Strobus everywhere, except perhaps sometimes on the Pacific, where Pinus Lambertiana is known as white pine. Sugar pine is, however, so general for that species, that white pine will probably not become general. But now we have Forestry telling its reader that " yellow pine " is Pinus Strobus, which is so well known as white pine.