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yet arrived. When that time comes it will be found, 
we dare predict, that, as it is a tree blest with so 
many other distinguishing marks peculiar to itself, 
it can quite well afford to dispense with extra emphasis 
on this particular cone phase. 
Some of us who have had cones and branchlets sent 
home to us fondly imagine that no difficulties in 
the way of giving this tree its right name at a glance 
will arise and stare anyone in the face, upon that 
day, whenever or if ever it dawns, that the Lyall 
larch learns to make his presence felt and seen 
among us. 
The first thing that strikes the eye, as you look 
for the first time upon a sample of Lyall, you are 
struck with the ostentatious display of branchlet and 
bud. The branchlets look as if bleached in streaks 
with bands of white lines, and the buds as if plastered 
with a profuse application of the scatterings of a 
powder-puff. 
We read from time to time stories of scenic effects. 
produced by them from travellers who have made 
pilgrimages to see them in their own Montana home, 
where they flourish in scenes of Alpine grandeur at 
some 6,000 feet above sea-level. Such an account I 
read, written by Mr. F. R. Balfour (in our Arbori- 
cultural Journal, if I remember aright). In it he 
describes the vivid delight he experienced as a tree- 
lover at a sight of it there. 
' But a spectacle here like this there seems little 
ane of futurity ever beholding, a fact we regret 
when we reflect what a pre-eminently irradiating 
green coat has God given these trees. They flourish— 
alas !—far away, but if they grew in the garden of 
the Hesperides itself the chance of seeing them in 
their prime, for most of us, could not be more remote. 
L, GrirFitHi1 comes from the Himalayas, and: 
