Chapter III. 

 THE PINE. 



Larch — Pinus larix. 



The more modern botanists divide the Pine family 

 into three genera, — Pi/ws, Abies, and Cedrus, to the 

 last of which the larch belongs. 



The Larch (Piuus larix) is, after the common pine, 

 probably the most valuable of the tribe. Though a 

 native of the mountains of more southern regions, it 

 thrives uncommonly well in Britain ; and as it grows 

 more rapidly, and also in more varied soils than the 

 other, it is, jierhaps, better adapted for general culti- 

 vation. In the south, it attains an immense height; 

 some single beams of larch, employed in the palaces 



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