02 KINDS OF 



THE LARCH. 

 {Pinus larix.) 



The Larch is a timber-tree of great beauty, 

 magnitude, and value. Thofe of the largeit fize 

 in this country, when (landing detached, and 

 fome others of finaller iize, are certainly highly 

 ornamental. A grove, or a group of larch trees, 

 forms a pleafing objecl, at any period of their 

 growth ; when young they look extremely gay ; 

 when grown up, their fpiry heads have a fine ef- 

 fect, efpecially if contrafled with broad headed 

 trees, rocks, or bold ground. In mixed planta- 

 tions, the larch is confpicuous at every feafon, 

 and very much enlivc-is the appearance of other 

 trees. A plantation of firs has a fombre, and 

 even a gloomy appearance, at fome particular fea- 

 ibns of the year. But if a few larches be fcat- 

 tered on its borders, or a few groups be planted 

 here and there, or if even its accidental blanks 



be 



called the Tree Laburnum ; the shrubby sort never arrives 

 at any considerable size, and should never be planted as a 

 forest, or even an ornamental tree ; being only fit for the 

 shrubbery. The Tree Laburnum is easily distinguished 

 from the shrubby, by the greater size of the leaves, and the 

 superior length of the bunches of flowers. See article 

 Nursery, for September. 



