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youth of the tree, and little dignity even when it attains 

 its full growth. Leaves it cannot be said to have; and 

 consequently it affords neither shade nor shelter. In 



THE LARCH. 



spring the Larch becomes green long before the native 

 trees, and its green is so peculiar and vivid, that finding 

 nothing to harmonize with it wherever it comes forth, a 

 disagreeable speck is produced. In summer, when all the 



