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exception of oak. For posts, rails, and fencing, it 

 is better not to strip the bark, and it looks well 

 left on. 



The larch takes a pyramidal growth, which it 

 retains with much regularity through life. The 

 light branches, "for boughs it has none," spring 

 horizontally from a reddish-grey scaly stem, and, 

 as the tree grows older, they curve gracefully 

 downwards at the extremities. The leaves, which 

 unfold early in April, are in tufts, but single on 

 the young shoots, like those of the cedar. The 

 catkins appear soon after the leaves ; the males 

 are yellow, and the young cones a rosy-red, 

 changing to brown. They stand ered on bent 

 footstalks. 



The larch is not a very long-lived tree, and we 

 seldom see it more than fort}- or fifty feet high, 

 but in favourable situations it is said to grow 

 much larger. Drawn up closel}' together, the 

 trees present the appearance of a mass of bare 

 poles, with small conical heads; but, where allowed 

 room, there is something very refreshing about a 

 larch plantati(t)n in early spring, when the little, 

 bright grassy-green leaves burst out from the 

 delicate spray, and the air is full of its resinous 

 fragrance. 



The name Larch is said to be derived from the 

 Celtic word, lni\ fat, and was applied to this 

 tree on account of the abundance of resin it 



