Laricopsis Kaempferi 
Native of China. 
Nat. Order: Conirera. Tribe: ABIETINEA. 
Laricopsis Kaempfert, Kent in Veitch’s Manual, ed. ii. 404 (1900); 
Pseudolarix Kaempfert, Gordon ‘“ Pinet,” ed. i. 298 (1858); Larix 
Kaempferi, Carriére in “ Flore des Serres,” xi. 97 (1856); Adzes 
Kaempfert, Lindley in Gard. Chron. 1854, p. 255. 
This Chinese larch resembles the common one, but the 
leaves are larger, and when they first come out are of a 
brilliant light green colour; before they fall in autumn they 
change toa golden yellow. In China it has been known to 
grow to a height of one hundred and twenty feet, with a trunk 
eight feet in circumference, a height which I do not think it 
will ever attain in this country. The plant in the garden here 
is very old—I believe one of the first sent out; and though 
it is only nine feet high, it has a circumference of over 
ninety feet. I imagine that it was raised from a layer, as I 
have others which show much more of the upright habit of 
the European larch. It will do well in almost any light soil. 
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