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BEISSNER (418), they were 7.5 m high. The present writer has observed a fine 
specimen at Ellesbo in Bohuslän (see Fig. 107). This tree is 8.2 m high, 
and 12.3; cm at breast-high. This specimen, being a park tree, has a very 
fine growth. 
SETH KEMPE (ror) tried this larceh on Hemsön in Ångermanland, but there 
are none there now. 
The tree may be recommended as a park tree; but is not of any great 
use as a forest tree. 
The timber of the East American larch is hard, tough, and durable. If 
is valuable in ship-building, for sleepers, posts, and sills. The timber is 
scarcely more valuable, however, than that of the European larch. 
Five-sixths of the driftwood that comes to the coasts of Norway belongs 
to this kind of larch. The wood is here called öd-gran (Red spruce). 
According to LINDMAN (120), it is to be recognized by very small knots, which 
points to numerous small boughs, as in the Swedish spruce. The hardness 
and heaviness of the wood are very striking; its wealth of resin is great, and 
causes a strong smell of tar. The colour is pale yellowish brown with a 
dash of red, sometimes strong "Indian red”, sometimes orange red or dark 
reddish yellow. The darkest shades and the greatest quantity of resin occurs 
in the root branches. The bark is thin reddish-brown and scaly. 
R. SCHÖDER speaks of a hybrid form in the Agricultural Institute at Moscow, 
Larix americana X dahurica which had appeared in the Botanical Gardens at 
Petrograd (576). 
Chap. VIII. The American Mountain Larch (Larix Lvalli). 
On p. 782 there is given an account of the distribution of this larch. As 
it is difficult to get seed of this species, it is as yet little cultivated in Europe, 
not at all in Sweden. Yet it should be one of the first trees that can be 
tried with hope of success in the Swedish fells, if we wish to make an attempt, 
by means of foreign kinds of trees, to maintain or raise the tree-limit — a pro- 
posal which has several times been put forward, but which has not yet seriously 
been put into execution. For this reason the Alpine larch has been mentioned 
somewhat more frequently than other species of larch, which have also not 
yet been tried in Sweden. 
Chap. IX. The Dahurian Larch. 
On p. 783 there is given a report of the natural distribution of this species, 
and on p. 784 of its introduction into Europe. In Sweden it is mentioned 
as early as 1879 by ROSSANDER (1661, who considered it peculiar rather than 
beautiful. - ULRIKSEN (249) states that fifteen-year-old specimens at Alnarp 
were 8 m high in 1897. They had borne cones for many years and formed 
fine slender pyramids. In 1910 the present writer measured a specimen there 
which was 11.2 m high, and had a breast-high diameter of 22 cm. 
SETH KEMPE (ror) has tried it at Hemsö in Ångermanland, and found that 
it stood the climate very well and grew rapidly. 
When green, this larch has a faint jasmine smell, that is, the same smell 
as the dried twigs of Siberian larch, but fainter. It would seem that this 
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