140 TSUGA, OR HEMLOCK SPRUCE FIRS 
under any full-grown Larch tree other than the Com- 
mon Larch? To illustrate the direction of. my 
thoughts in the case of the L. Dahurica (or L. Pendula), 
did it happen, for instance, to grow near some fre- 
quented path, ‘where up and down the people go’’? 
as they went on their road to Camelot in sight of the 
ill-fated Lady of Shalott, how-many of these passers- 
by, in spite of its smoother bark and less rough 
exterior, would dissociate it in their minds from the 
accustomed sight of the Common Larch ? 
Of other Larch that call for attention there are 
the three varieties that hail from Columbian shores 
—by name the Americana, Occidentalis, and Lyalli. 
The Americana or Tamarac is the lover of swampy 
wetlands, the natural frequenter of dreary morass and 
marshland grounds. Why we have not tried it in 
such places, why we have not been directed by the 
schoolmen of forestry institutions and advisors of 
improved methods to plant them in such places 
alongside the much-prescribed Sitka, is a question 
that must remain unanswered here and relegated to 
the interrogative as far as we are concerned, but we 
sometimes wonder. 
It is noted for its little leaves, and shares in common 
with the Kurile Larch the reputation of bearing the 
tiniest of cone fruit. The Tamarac is the tree that 
has earned still further fame in directions aquatic, 
for the important part it was called upon to play in 
the constructive scheme of Hiawatha’s cance : 
Give me of your roots, O Tamarac, 
Of your fibrous roots, O Larch tree, 
My canoe to bind together, | 
So to bind the ends together 
That the water may not enter, 
That the river may not wet me. 
We can only piously hope that it gave satisfaction 
