22 LARCH FIE. 



by its defiance to the storm from every quar- 

 ter. But it has of late years disappeared 

 from the scene of its former days, and has 

 ceased to breathe the pure air of a lime- 

 stone or gritstone plain or sloping dingle, 

 and has met its doom on the stools of the 

 blocking-room or in the heated atmosphere 

 and odoriferous vapours of the washhouse 

 or drying-rooms of the calico printer. 



LAECH ME. 



Too much cannot be said in recommenda- 

 tion of this kind of fir timber, and it is espe- 

 cially adapted to the Peaks of North Derby- 

 shire, always bearing in mind soil and situa- 

 tion being suitably fixed on. It will be pro- 

 fitable to grow it in some situations as a tim- 

 ber crop by itself. I am disposed to think so, 

 from instances which I have seen in Ladbach 

 Clough in the Taxal plantations, and in Hamp- 

 shire, between the town of Liphook and Pe- 



