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like many trees from that rather disappointing region 

 of tree exportation, seems inclined to quarrel with 

 our seasons. Cornwall seems to almost claim a 

 monopoly of success with it. From a cone point of 

 view, it is an easy winner in any size competition of 

 fruits. Their long exserted bracts, directed upwards, 

 culminating in a long protruding point, or mucro, 

 stick out like the sharp-pointed instruments of an 

 angry insect. Of the size of many a common Spruce 

 Fir cone, they also imperceptibly recall, both in build 

 and bract, the familiar appearance of a Douglas Fir 

 cone, with this reservation, that the spike of this 

 Larch bract arises from a truncated, squarer-shaped 

 lower portion of bract, while the Douglas protrudes 

 in the well-known shape of a Neptune trident. 



PsEUDO-LaRIX K.EMFERI. 



Give fools their gold, and knaves their power, 

 Let Fortune's bubbles rise and fall. 

 Who sows a field, or trains a flower. 

 Or plants a tree, is more than all. 



Whittier. 



No one outside the ranks of some little circle of 

 ungrateful churls would begrudge posthumous praise 

 to that predecessor w^ho had planted and persuaded 

 to flourish one of these exceptionally ornamented 

 specimens of tree-life upon any land which it w^as his 

 good fortune to be called upon to occupy. 



It is colloquially called the Chinese Golden Larch 

 and is of fascinating appearance and colour. 



It was introduced by J. Gould Veitch in 1861. 



It is one of those trees that would seem to prefer, 

 if not require peremptorily, a Castle-Welan (co. Down, 

 Ireland) atmosphere, or a Cornish- Riviera condition, 

 to persuade it to grow as quickly as we would wish. 



