108 HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES. 



Seeds with a soft, thin coating, and more or less enclosed 

 by the wing. 



Leaves soft and deciduous, scattered singly on the young 

 shoots, but collected in bundles on the adult plant. 



Cotyledons seven. 



A beautiful deciduous tree, differing from the larch in the 

 male flowers, being spike-like and in umbellate tufts, and in 

 the cones having deciduous scales with divergent points. 



Pseudolarix Ksempferi, Gordon. The Golden Larch. 

 {Syno7iyi)is : Larix Kcenipferi, Carriere ; Pinus Kcujupferi, 

 Lambert ; Abies Kcempferi, Lindley ; P. Fortunei^ Mayr.) 

 Northern China. 1846. This is a rare and beautiful tree, 

 which, from the midland counties southwards, is perfectly 

 hardy. It is a distinctly ornamental conifer, and that at three 

 different periods of the year early spring, when the tender 

 green leaves are unfolding ; autumn, when they put on the 

 lovely golden colour; and during the leafless period, when the 

 yellowish-green or golden-brown bark of the younger branches 

 shows off to perfection, and renders the trees distinct from 

 almost every other species in cultivation. In this country the 

 largest specimens have well-furnished stems of semi-pendent 

 branches. The leaves vary in length according to their posi- 

 tion on the tree, but are usually from i\ inches to 2 inches. 

 From home-grown specimens of the cones that have been 

 forwarded to me, the average size would be about 2 inches long 

 by 1 1 inches broad ; but with the age of the cone and opening 

 out of the scales the measurements vary much. They are 

 composed of a number of diverging scales, each i inch long 

 and half that in width, which, after the ripening of the cone, 

 soon fall apart. The tree succeeds well in not too stiff 

 loamy soil, and is by no means impatient either of shelter or 

 shading. 



PSEUDOTSUGA (Carriere). 



THE DOUGLAS FIRS. 



Male flowers like those of Picea. 



Cones pendent, persistent, ripening the first year. 



