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show the linear pulvini which mark the two-year -old 

 branches of the L. Europaea. The cones of the 

 L. Dahurica are longer, are not so thick through, and 

 are more tapering. The leaves, it is alleged, are 

 more pointed, but they are not conspicuously so. In 

 the bark there is a marked difference, and it is much 

 smoother than the L. Europaea, but comparative 

 terms in tree descriptions make obscure comparisons 

 to most. That it is finely scaled and with less 

 wrinkled rind, is a distinction that may appeal to 

 some. 



Since writing this a new and interesting light has 

 been thrown upon the life-history of this so-called 

 Larix Dahurica. Professor Augustine Henry, than 

 whom perhaps no greater living authority exists (vide 

 Gardeners^ Chronicle, September i8th and 25th, and 

 October 9th, 191 5)> has now arrived at the conclusion 

 that the previously described L. Dahurica (two of 

 which mentioned in Trees of Great Britain grow here) 

 are not the true Asiatic tree, but a cross-bred tree 

 between the Europaea and American Larch (or as 

 Americans still style them, L. Decidua and L. Lari- 

 cina), and should more correctly be named the Larix 

 Pendula ; a name, we note, that was bestowed upon 

 them when they were planted here some seventy 

 years ago. 



To go back to the old name, then, is assuredly a 

 great compliment to the sagacity of our predecessors 

 in the shades. 



It would be rather an interesting question to put 

 to many — I do not refer only to those who take but 

 little note of trees, but I am also alluding to those 

 who take more than ordinary interest in them, and 

 are more than in an ordinary way connected with 

 them — and the question I should like to propound 

 to them is this : how many of you have ever seen and 

 known that you have been looking at or walking 



