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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 



