138 TSUGA, OR HEMLOCK SPRUCE FIRS 
Larch is a tree that is generally known; but there is 
another which is beginning to attract attention, a 
tree that grows up quickly in its first twelve years of 
life, that displays a red appearance of branch that in 
winter lights up the landscape, and gives a sort of 
Red Cardinalis willow effect to the scenes that it 
occupies. 
This is the Japanese Larch, or Larix Leptolepis, 
which is being now extensively planted, but- which 
has already begun to falsify the hastily formed 
expectations that it would enjoy immunity from 
Chermes and canker, and so rise superior in a popu- 
larity above that of our older friend the European 
Larch. 
With the exception of these two, all the others are 
rarely to be found, and the Japanese Larch must still 
be regarded as untried and in statu pupillari, and 
several others are nothing more yet with us than 
babes in the wood or nurseries ; for such are so far 
the Lyall, Kurilensis, Occidentalis, and Sibirica, the 
last a tree which is evidently unfitted for our 
climatic conditions. 
This tree apparently seems to entertain a rooted 
objection to any intermediate stage of climatic 
condition between that of a sun-kissed or frost-bound 
earth. And this is all we propose to say about it 
here. 
L. DauuricaA aNnD L. Evrop#a.—Amongst the 
rarities this tree claims perhaps our first attention, 
since it is among the few of alien origin that have, on 
a few occasions, risen to eminence of growth upon 
British’ soil. 
Between the L. Europea and the L. Dahurica 
only minute differences exist. Looking at two 
specimens before me, I should say that the 
branches of the Dahurica are darker, and do not 
