130 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 



and 2 feet in diameter, about five feet from the ground, 

 with wood of excellent quality. By the students of the 

 School of Forestry the Siberian larch has been of late 

 transplanted into the most differing parts of the country, 

 and has more especially been cultivated at Evois. 



The European larch (L. Europaea D.C.) has also, though 

 not indigenous, been planted within the last 40 or 50 

 years, and is found in different places in small forest 

 masses, as, for example, in the woods belonging to the 

 manufactories of Fiskars and others. Transverse sections 

 of trunks, and a slip of wood from Fiskars (60 8') were 

 exhibited at Moscow ; a section from Svarta in the same 

 latitude (60 8') was exhibited, it was of a tree 14 years 

 years in age, 15 feet high, and 5 inches in diameter ; and 

 there was exhibited from Evois (61 15') of a tree of the 

 same age, 14 years, 16 feet high, and 8'1 inches in diameter. 



The juniper (Juniperus communis L.) grows everywhere 

 throughout the country, generally as a bush, but some- 

 times as a small tree. At Moscow was exhibited a section 

 from Evois (61 15'), of a tree 40 years old, 2'5 inches in 

 diameter, and another from Pallila (60 32'), 150 years old, 

 46 feet high, and 7 inches in diameter, and a slab of the 

 same tree. 



The yew (Taxus baccata L.) is found in the Aland 

 Islands, but only there, ordinarily as a bush, but some- 

 times, though more rarely, as a small tree. 



SECTION B. BROAD- LEAVED TREES. 



In regard to broad-leaved trees indigenous in Finland 

 we learn from the Statistical Notes by Dr Ignatius : 



' The birch (B'etula alba), of which there are in Finland 

 two varieties very similar to each other, and often con- 

 founded Betula verrucosa and Betula glutinosa forms 

 forests of considerable extent, especially on grounds pre- 



