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trees which have been favoured there in Britain 
from time immemorial. 
Owing to its impatience of shade, even of the 
lightest description by parent standards, artificial 
regeneration of larch is the rule. Hitherto, in 
Britain, this has been almost entirely by means 
of planting; but sowing, either broadcast after 
ploughing the whole land, or else in rills if 
the land is only partially prepared in strips for 
the reception of the seed, seems deserving of 
a trial as being perhaps cheaper, and certainly 
more likely to yield a thicker crop. The seed 
will germinate most freely on the best patches 
of land, and the blanks and backward spots 
can be planted up with Corsican or Scots pine, 
or whatever seems most advisable under the 
given circumstances. 
To try and obviate the disappointment and 
loss caused by canker, experiments are being 
largely made in Britain with the Japanese larch 
(L. leptolepis, so called from the ‘thin scales’ 
on its cones), said to be a very hardy species, 
and to be almost as rapid in growth and as 
useful for timber. But it is yet too soon to 
hazard any definite opinion as to its suitability 
