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Plants from home-saved seed are always more 

 vigorous than those from foreign seed. We always 

 prefer home seed when it can be got ; but the great 

 defect in it is the difficulty in cleaning, which makes 

 it far more costly than foreign. (Cardno & Darling, 

 Aberdeen.) 



We tliink that taking into consideration the fact of 

 the more sturdy slow growth of home plants, they are 

 less liable to the attack of disease and insects. (Stuart, 

 Mein, & Allan, Kelso.) 



Home better in every way. (Howden & Company, 

 Inverness.) 



We think the home makes the best tree to plant ; 

 foreign is liable to get browned in appearance after 

 awhile, while home maintains a more healthy look, 

 and, generally speaking, seems to do better and thrive 

 more than the foreign does in this climate. (William 

 Fell & Co., Hexham.) 



We find that the foliasre of the foreign is consider- 



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ably lighter in colour and longer in the needles than 

 the home. In all, we consider that the trice native 

 larch cannot be surpassed for any exposure, and it is 

 our opinion that Tyrolese or foreign ought to be avoided 

 in Scotland, as we have of late years observed in many 

 plantations around here that the tops of the foreign 

 larch suffer more or less when they reach the height 

 of six or eight feet, while the home push steadily along, 

 making short growths compared with foreign, but in 

 most cases well ripened in early autumn. (Thomas 

 Imrie & Sons, A}t.) 



