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hillocks alluded to, both Scotch and Tyrolese plants 

 are in vigorous growth, with scarcely any sickly plants 

 amongst them ; but where the larch and Scotch pine 

 are mixed, there are many sickly plants of the former 

 species, caused by confinement. To the writer there 

 appears so very little difference between the Scotch 

 and Tyrolese larch, that all practical operations of 

 planting may be conducted as if they were one and 

 the same. If not identical, they are closely allied, and 

 show no appreciable difference, except during the few 

 years they remain in the nursery, when it must be 

 allowed there is sometimes considerable difference in 

 appearance both in the seed-bed and also even in the 

 transplanted nursery lines. The plants from foreign 

 seed come earlier into leaf, and continue growing later 

 in autumn, than the home-grown, hence are more 

 liable to injury by frost. 



