LARIX DAHURICA OR PENDULA 139 
show the linear pulvini which mark the two-year-old 
branches of the L. Europwa. The cones of the 
L. Dahurica are longer, are not so thick through, and 
are more tapering. The leaves, it is alleged, are 
more pointed, but they are not conspicuously so. In 
the bark there is a marked difference, and it is much 
smoother than the L. Europea, but comparative 
terms in tree descriptions make obscure comparisons 
to most. That it is finely scaled and with less 
wrinkled rind, is a distinction that may appeal to 
some. 
Since writing this a new and interesting light has 
been thrown upon the life-history of this so-called 
Larix Dahurica. Professor Augustine Henry, than 
whom perhaps no greater living authority exists (vide 
Gardeners’ Chronicle, September 18th and 25th, and 
October 9th, 1915), has now arrived at the conclusion 
that the previously described L. Dahurica (two of 
which mentioned in Trees of Great Britain grow here) 
are not the true Asiatic tree, but a cross-bred tree 
between the Europea and American Larch (or as 
Americans still style them, L. Decidua and L. Lari- 
cina), and should more correctly be named the Larix 
Pendula ; a name, we note, that was bestowed upon 
them when they were planted here some seventy 
years ago. 
To go back to the old name, then, is assuredly a 
great compliment to the sagacity of our predecessors 
in the shades. ¢ 
It would be rather an interesting question to put 
to many—I do not refer only to those who take but 
little note of trees, but I am also alluding to those 
who take more than ordinary interest in them, and 
are more than in an ordinary way connected with 
them—and the question I should like to propound 
to them is this : how many of you have ever seen and 
known that you have been looking at or walking 
