150 DWABF AND 8L0W-GB0WING C0NIFEB8 



PSEUDOLARIX, Gord. 



Pseudolarix Kaempferi, Gordon, var. nana, Beiss. (ii. 

 300). 



Syn. : Hin-le-Sung (Chinese). 

 Beissner states that Fortune found in China a dwarf 

 form oiPs.-larix Kaempferi, cultivated in gardens and as 

 a pot plant, varying in height from 12 iaches to 3 feet. 

 I have not come across it in cultivation. 



P. Kaempferi, var. Dawsoni. 



Professor Sargent has sent to me photographs and 

 descriptions of a very interesting dwarf form that has 

 recently come into his possession and is now in the Arnold 

 Arboretum. It appears that Mr. Jackson Dawson, former 

 Superintendent of the Arboretum, raised seedlings from 

 seed produced by the big pseudolarix in the Wellesley 

 Pinetum in 1895. Some of these seedlings are now 

 growing in the Arnold Arboretum and are from 12 to 

 15 feet high. Other seedlings which were dwarf in habit 

 were given by Mr. Dawson to ]\Ir. W. Harper, of the 

 Andorra Nurseries, Chestnut HiU, and later found their 

 way back again to the Wellesley Pinetum. One of these 

 is now in the Arnold Arboretum, and although it must be 

 twenty-six years old, it has only made an open, broadly 

 conical bush, about 18 inches high by as much through. 



P. Kaempferi, var. Annesleyana. 



At Castlewellan, the seat of Lady Mabel Annesley m 

 Co. Down, there is a very distinct form. The plant is 

 very old; it is said to be one of the first distributed after 

 its introduction by Fortune — this would make it about 

 eighty years old. It has formed a low bush of horizontal 

 branches; branchlets pendulous and densely covered 

 with leaves. It is now about 9 feet high and has a circum- 

 ference of 90 feet. 



