192 GENERAL SUMMARY 
employed in situations which would formerly have been 
occupied by larch. Both these trees are faster growing than 
the larch, and good returns may be expected from them 
on suitable soils; but with neither of them is there such 
a ready sale for thinnings of all ages as there is with the 
larch, so that the cost of planting is not so quickly repaid. 
Japanese larch and western larch are nearly, though not 
quite, immune from canker, and grow slightly faster than 
the common larch during their carly years, and where 
grown in a short rotation they are safer and at least as 
remunerative as the common larch. For all this, the 
common larch will continue to be grown, and with reason- 
able care, that will be ungrudgingly bestowed by the lover 
of trees, as good larch may still be produced as any that 
have been raised in Britain. 
