030 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
for the same purpose. Itis, too, a rapid grower, 
for in ten years from planting a seed a Larch of 
twenty-five feet in height will often be produced, 
whilst in fifty years the Tree will attain almost its 
ordinary maximum growth, namely, eighty-feet. 
It often lives to a great age—not unfrequently as 
long as two centuries. 
