CHAPTER III. 

 THE PINE. 



Larch Pinus Jarix. 



THE more modern botanists divide the Pine family 

 into three genera, Pinus, Jlbies, and Cedrus, to the 

 last of which the larch belongs. 



The LARCH (Pinus 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, perhaps, 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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