Pseudolarix ^479 



some trees ^ in the hills west of Ningpo in 1874. The only other locality where this 

 species has been seen is the Liishan mountains, south of Kiukiang in Kiangsu, where 

 it was discovered by Abh6 David in 1868, and afterwards by Maries,^ who mentions 

 immense trees ; but Wilson ^ only succeeded in finding in these mountains, some 

 wild, and half a dozen planted trees, none of considerable size. 



Fortune had been acquainted with this tree for some years previously as a dwarf 

 plant* in pots, contrived, though only i^ to 2 ft. high, to look like an aged Cedar of 

 Lebanon. It appears to be known to the Chinese, as either chin-sung, "golden 

 pine," or chin-lo-sung, "golden deciduous pine," names applied on account of the 

 beautiful yellow colour of the foliage for a short time before it falls in autumn. 



Fortune sent seeds from Chekiang in 1853, and again in 1855 '^ Glendinning's 

 nursery, Chiswick ; but he states ^ that of all the packages of seed, which he sent for 

 several years in succession, only one batch ever germinated ; and that the only plants 

 living in England in i860 were natural seedlings which had been dug up in the 

 woods of China and sent^ home in Wardian cases in 1854. 



The tree is perfectly hardy, as it withstood the severe winter of 1859- 1860 

 at Ambleside'' and at Hafodunos''; and possibly its rarity in collections is due to 

 the small number of plants actually introduced ; but it appears to be extremely slow 

 in growth in England. It will not endure lime in the soil, as the seedlings raised 

 and planted at Colesborne soon die. (A. H.) 



Remarkable Trees 



The finest tree that we know of is in a sheltered situation at Carclew, which, 

 when I saw it in 1902, was 35 ft. by 5 ft. In 1910 it was 40 ft. by 5 ft. 2 in. I am 

 told by Mr. Simmons, the head-gardener at Carclew, that he has never found fertile 

 seed on it. There is a healthy tree in the grounds at Hutley Towers near Ryde, 

 which in 1906 was 30 ft. by 2 ft., but it produced no cones either in 1905 or 1906. 

 At Joldwynds, near Dorking, the seat of Sir W. Paget Bowman, Bt., there is a tree, 

 planted about 1879, which is now 27^ ft. by 2\ ft. Though perfectly healthy and 

 branching to the ground it has never produced any seed. 



There are several trees at Kew, the largest of which near the main gate is 

 probably one of the original seedlings.* It flowered profusely in June 1907, 

 producing fully developed cones with imperfect seed, no embryo being formed.^ It 

 bore cones freely again in 1910; and measured 31 ft. by 2 ft. 4 in. in 1912. 



At Tortworth, a tree measured in 19 10, 37 ft. by 4 ft. i in. Lord Ducie 

 informs me that it was planted on 3rd November 1858, in a bed of sand over- 

 lying carboniferous limestone, deep enough, however, to sustain a heavy growth of 



1 Referred by Hance to Larix dahurica, but evidently, from the Chinese name "chin-sung," used by Moule, he was 

 speaking of Pseudolarix. 



2 Cf. Bretschneider, op. cit. 741 (1898). ^ jn Card. Chron. xlii. 344 (1907). 

 * Var. tiana. Masters, mjoum. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xviii. 523 (1881). ^ In Card. Chron. i860, p. 170. 



6 Fortune, in Card. Chron. 1855, p. 644. Kent says that until the tree coned at Pallanza, plants were obtained by 

 layering. ' Card. Chron. i860, pp. 74 and 386. 



8 It is apparently the tree mentioned by J. Smith, Records of Kew Gardens, 290 (1888), as S ft. high in 1864. 



' According to Masters, in Card. Chron. ii. 440 (1887) axA Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xiv. 58 {1892), this species first 

 produced fruit in England in 1887 at Lucombe and Pince's nursery, Exeter, but this tree is no longer living. 



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