THE COMMON LARCH. 



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similar to a native site amid the fastnesses of the High- 

 land rocks. 



Accident also frequently contributes to the effect and 

 picturesque appearance of the Larch, exemplified in the 

 tree at Dal wick, figured in the " Arboretum Britannicum,"" 

 and several others that have come under our observation. 

 Upon the whole, however, we hold it to be inferior in 

 beauty and effect even in its highest developement to 

 many of the evergreen coniferse, among which stands pre- 

 eminent the magnificent Lebanon cedar. 



In addition to two of the original trees still nourishing 

 at Dunkeld, those at Dalwick in Peebleshire, before de- 

 scribed, and various others of nearly a similar age, there 

 are now numerous Larches of younger growth to be found, 

 of nearly equal dimensions, in many parts of Scotland. 

 In England, besides the trees recorded by Loudon, we 

 may mention a Larch at Constable- Burton, near Bedale, 

 Yorkshire, planted in 1775, whose girth at three feet from 

 the ground is nine feet four inches, its estimated height 

 one hundred and ten feet, and its solid contents of timber, 

 one hundred and fifty-six feet. In Stanwick Park, the 

 seat of Lord Prudhoe in the same county, are three 

 Larches measuring respectively, at three feet from the 

 ground, nine feet eleven inches, nine feet nine inches, and 

 nine feet four inches, and supposed to be nearly a cen- 

 tury old. These trees stand upon a deep deposit of dry 

 loamy gravel. 



