LARIX OCCIDENTALIS I4I 
to the naval constructor and the crew concerned in 
the waterproof réle it was relied upon to perform. 
L. OccipEenTALIs.—Of this representative of our 
American trio great things are expected. It is a 
mighty tree in its own country, and some see in it 
a mightier future even that that achieved by the 
European utilitarian champions of our landed estates. 
It was only introduced to Kew in 1881, and this 
seems a distance of time to some of us advancing in 
life such a very short time since. It has been tried, 
among other places, at Brocklesbury (Lord Yar- 
borough’s), and written of in Arboricultural Journal 
(1912) as not found wanting, by such a capable judge 
of the merits and demerits of tree life as Mr. Havelock. 
This Western Larch clearly reveals its individuality 
by the long, bristle-like bracts that are exserted from 
between the cone scales, and which point outwards, 
protrusively and aggressively in contradistinction 
to the other prominent rival in the field on this 
particular point—the L. Griffithii, whose bracts 
point upward. 
Of the medium-sized-cone competitors, the cones 
of the Occidentalis may be estimated to rank as the 
smallest. 
L. Lyatui.—If this distinguished stranger among 
trees with us were momentarily permitted power 
of speech, with some show of justice perhaps it 
might prefer complaint in that no mention of it 
was made as among those Larches famed for their 
displays of exserted bracts. To which we, in admis- 
sion of guilty plea, would make reply and urge that 
it is so far a tree so very new, so very strangeé to us; 
and in humbly praying forgiveness for omission, 
further urge that its coning days in England have not 
