LARCH. 



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and which will bear cattle in winter, are generally 

 congenial to the larch. 



Ail very rough ground, particularly ravines, 

 where the soil is rt either soft sand nor too wet ; 

 also the sides of the channels of rapid rivulets, 

 — The roots of most trees luxviriate in living or 

 flowing water; and, where it is of salubrious qua- 

 lity, especially when containing a slight solution of 

 lime, will throw themselves out a considerable 

 distance under the stream. The reason why steep 

 slopes, and hills whose strata are nearly perpendicu- 

 lar to the horizon, are so much affected by larch and 

 other trees, is, because the moisture in such situa- 

 tions is in motion, and often continues dripping 

 through the fissures throughout the whole summer. 

 The desideratum of situation for larch, is where the 

 roots will neither be drowned in stagnant water in 

 winter, nor parched by drought in summer, and 

 where the soil is free from any corrosive mineral or 

 corrupting mouldiness. 



Larch, in suitable soil, sixty years planted, and 

 seasonably thinned, will have produced double the 

 value of what almost any other timber would have 

 done ; and from its general adaptation both for sea 

 and land piu'poses, it will always command a ready 

 sale. 



