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like many trees from that rather disappointing region 
of tree exportation, seems inclined to quarrel with 
our seasons. Cornwall seems to almost claim a 
monopoly of success with it. From a cone point of 
view, it is an.easy winner in any size competition of 
fruits. Their long exserted bracts, directed upwards, 
culminating in a long protruding point, or mucro, 
stick out like the sharp-pointed instruments of an 
angry insect. Of the size of many a common Spruce 
Fir cone, they also imperceptibly recall, both in build 
and bract, the familiar appearance of a Douglas Fir 
cone, with this reservation, that the spike of this 
Larch bract arises from a truncated, squarer-shaped 
lower portion of bract, while the Douglas protrudes 
in the well-known shape of a Neptune trident. 
Psrupo-Larix K&MFERI.— 
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power, 
Let Fortune’s bubbles rise and fall, 
Who sows a field, or trains a flower, 
Or plants a tree, is more than all. 
WHITTIER, 
No one outside the ranks of some little circle of 
ungrateful churls would begrudge posthumous praise 
to that predecessor who had planted and persuaded 
to flourish one of these exceptionally ornamented 
specimens of tree-life upon any land which it was his 
good fortune to be called upon to occupy. 
It is colloquially called the Chinese Golden Larch 
and is of fascinating appearance and colour. 
It was introduced by J. Gould Veitch in 1861. 
It is one of those trees that would seem to prefer, 
if not require peremptorily, a Castle-Welan (co. Down, 
Ireland) atmosphere, or a Cornish-Riviera condition, 
to persuade it to grow as quickly as we would wish. 
