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Cherry, (if properly prepared in its branches, as well as 

 roots,) from Noyember till April ; and there is no tree 

 that recovers more easily from the operation. Although 

 the roots are less fibrous than those of the Beech, the 

 Sycamore, and the Lime, yet, after three years' training 

 in the transplanting nursery, it may be removed of a 

 great size, and with as much certainty of success as any 

 one of those favourite trees, and without the loss of a 

 twig or a branch. 



THE LARCH. 



This useful tree (Pinus larix) is classed in the Pine 

 family by botanists ; and it forms a sort of connecting 

 species between the deciduous class and the evergreens, 

 as, like the former, it annually sheds its leaves. It is a 

 native of the south of Europe, and of Siberia, and was 

 cultivated in England as early as 1629. Miller gives 

 three species of the tree. One of them is the far-famed 

 Cedar of Libanus, {Gedrus conifera, foliis laricis,) which 

 is a very hardy plant, and worthy of more extensive 

 cultivation than it has hitherto met with in Britain. The 

 two most useful kinds, however, are those usually planted 

 — namely, the white or common Larch, {Larix pyrami- 

 dalis,) and the black Larch of Canada {Larix pendula.) 

 To these we may very properly add the red Larch, {Larix 

 temiifolia,) likewise from the same country. 



The Larch is a native of the Alps and the Apennines, 

 where it grows to a tree of vast size and value. But as 

 it is not easy to say whether it has been most extolled in 

 ancient or in mordern times, all laboured encomium is in 

 this place superfluous. Livy, Vitruvius, and the elder 



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