4O THE WOODLANDS. 



the exclusion of all reference to it as a timber tree, 

 which use is amply illustrated in Hainault and Epping 

 Forests. 



The LARCH 1 is a native of the mountain regions of 

 Germany, but has been introduced into this country 

 for two hundred and fifty years and endures the cli- 

 mate well. It differs in one respect from other trees 

 of the fir tribe in shedding its leaves in the autumn. 

 These are thin, and about an inch in length, collected 

 in bundles or tufts. The trees will attain a height of 

 from eighty to one hundred feet, and produce a very 

 useful timber. 



LARCH. 



Amongst the timber brought to Rome for the pur- 

 pose of building the bridge called Naumachiaria 

 (about A.D. 20), was a larch which measured two 

 feet square in thickness throughout from end to end, 

 and was of the length of one hundred and twenty 

 feet, so that the entire tree could not have been less 

 than one hundred and fifty feet. Tiberius Caesar 

 would not allow it to be used for the erection, but 



1 Larix Europcza. 



