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lofty character, to one of almost horizontal form. In foliage it 

 is light and open, feathery, and together with its wood studded 

 with long pointed thorns, and seed pods of five or six inches in 

 length, which hang on all winter, create for it a tree very 

 desirable in the composition of groups, and also for roadsides 

 or streets where only a partial, not deep, shade is desirable. 



FIG. 9. LARCH, 



LARCH Larix. The European larch (larlv Europea) is a tree 

 almost indispensable in ornamental planting of grounds. Seem- 

 ingly indifferent as to the nature of the soil, it grows with sur- 

 prising rapidity in thin, poor, light sands, in wet, boggy loams, 

 high rocky knolls, or in rich garden loam. Downing says, " It 



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