192 GENERAL SUMMARY 



employed in situations which would formerly have been 

 occupied by larch. Both these trees are faster growing than 

 the larch, and good returns may be expected from them 

 on suitable soils ; but with neither of them is there such 

 a ready sale for thinnings of all ages as there is with the 

 larch, so that the cost of planting is not so quickly repaid. 

 Japanese larch and western larch are nearly, though not 

 quite, immune from canker, and grow slightly faster than 

 the common larch during their early years, ' and where 

 grown in a short rotation they are safer and at least as 

 remunerative as the common larch. For all this, the 

 common larch will continue to be grown, and with reason- 

 able care, that will be ungrudgingly bestowed by the lover 

 of trees, as good larch may still be produced as any that 

 have been raised in Britain. 



