HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES i6i 



adaptability to the pruning knife, all rendering 

 it of value for such situations. It also thrives 

 satisfactorily when planted in smoky and dusty 

 localities, and may sometimes be seen potted up 

 and offered for sale in Covent Garden market. It 

 makes a neat and effective pot plant, and one 

 which, unlike many other conifers, does not 

 change colour with the advent of winter. The 

 leaves are thickly produced, almost yew -green 

 above, slightly silvery on the under sides, flattened, 

 fully half an inch long, and sub - distichously 

 arranged. In the fruit we have something out of 

 the usual way of coniferous trees, for these are 

 bigger than sloes, ovate, almost transparent, and 

 with the kernel contained in a hard cherry-like 

 stone. The largest specimen I have seen was i8 

 feet in height. 



PSEUDOLARIX, Gordon 



THE FALSE OR GOLDEN LARCH 



Flowers monoecious ; males in umbellate pendulous tufts. 



Cones pendent, and composed of divergent scales like the 

 head of the common artichoke. 



Seeds \\ith a soft, thin coating, and more or less enclosed 

 by the mng. 



Leaves soft and deciduous, scattered singly on the young 

 shoots, but collected in bundles on the adult plant. 



Cotyledons seven. 



A beautiful deciduous tree, differing from the larch in the 

 male flowers, being in umbellate tufts, and in the cones having 

 deciduous scales \vith divergent points. 



PsEUDOLARix FoRTUNEi, Muye. The Golden 

 Larch. (Synonyms : Larix Kaempferi, Carriere ; 

 Pinus Kaempferi, Lambert] Abies Kaempferi, 



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