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bear seeds freely. The young trees form plenty of fibrous roots 
and are not difficult to transplant, up to 3 or 4 years of age. 
Spaced from 3 to 4 feet apart, it might be tried as a pure stand, or 
it could be mixed with some light demanding subject, for it does 
not mind a moderate amount of shade. It is probable that it will 
succeed in the west of England, Scotland and Ireland, rather than 
in the east of England on account of the more humid atmosphere 
in the former places. 
r of common names are applied to the tree in addition 
to that of ‘Yellow Cypress; some of them are Alaska Cedar, 
ellow Cedar, and Sitka Cypress. Its cones are sufficiently 
distinct to enable anyone to distinguish it from Lawson’s Cypress, 
for the scales are pointed, whilst those of Cupressus Lawsoniana 
are plain. The botanical Gamba of the tree are to be found 
in alge s Silva of N. Amer 
WESTERN Tan ciiew (. arix occidentalis, Nutt.). Atten- 
tion pone been directed to the virtues of this species on several 
occasions during the last few years, and several importations of seeds 
ave keen made with the object of establishing it under forest 
conditions. The chief reason for inducing people to plant it is the 
hope that it will prove immune from larch ‘canker and so form a good 
substitute for common larch in those places where Larix europaea 
is so liable to be crippled by disease as to make it an unprofitable 
species to plant. From descriptions of the timber of L. occidentalis 
and the uses to which it is put, it appears to be very similar in 
ayslity to that of the European species, hence the superiority of 
me kind over the other depends mainly on the constitution of the 
tho species. : 
The Western Tamarack occupies the basin of the Upper Colum- 
bian River, and is found at a fairly high elevation—2000 to 7000 
feet. Its largest dimensions are attained on the bottom lands of 
northern Montana and Idaho, where it is said to attain sometimes a 
height of 250 feet with a diameter of six.or eight feet. On slopes 
of and on mountain sides it is much smaller, thong? it gives 
satisfactory results even when growing in poor sandy so 
Hough, “ American Woods,” x. No. 250, pp. 52-53, says that the 
wood is heavy, hard, strong, sie athe, with few resin passages, 
very durable in contact with the soil, and susceptible of a very 
smooth polish. It is of a rich, orange-brown colour, with thin 
brownish-white sap-wood. He describes it as one of the most 
valuable of the coniferous woods of the continent, and as being used 
or iture, doors, interior finishing, railway ties, ey posts, &c. 
Specimens of the wood may be seen in Museum No. 3, at Kew, also 
a specimen of resin which is collected and eaten by the natives. 
Hough mentions this resin, and says that it-is eee resembling 
dextrine in properties, and exudes in abundance. 
No large trees of L. occidentalis appear to exist in this country. 
AS Kew there are a number of trees, 30 to 38 feet high. These 
re growing with European larch of a similar age, about 30 years, 
re there is little to choose between the development of the two 
species. Elwes and and Henry, * Trees . Great Br Bri sy ane jee nea “ 
il. pp. 395-402, say that a good seed 
. two or three years. ‘The cans open an Hert the sedi 
