The Larch. 



should be two feet apart in each row, and those in one of 

 the rows should stand opposite the interval of the other 

 row. The whole of them should be cut down to the 

 ground the year after being planted. The main shoot of 

 each plant ought to be suffered to go upright, and the side 

 shoots, instead of being pruned oif, should, on each side, 

 from the very ground, if possible, be worked in a horizontal 

 direction, along amongst the uprights of the neighbouring 

 plants. In a year or two, you begin to clip with the shears 

 at the bottom of the hedge 3 and, as the hedge mounts, you 

 keep twisting in the side shoots, and clipping the points, 

 until you have the hedge to the height you wish, when you 

 make the top either like the ridge of a house, or flat, as 

 may best suit your taste. The hedge, like that of the 

 Hawthorn, should be clipped twice a year ; in the winter, 

 and about the middle of July. Having omitted to mention 

 this under the word Hawthorn, I mention it here as 

 worthy of particular attention. 



In Latin, Larix; in French, Melose. 



311. The botanical characters are: — Male and female flowers, growing 

 separately on the same tree. The male flowers are disposed in a scaly kat- 

 kin ; they have no petal, but they have a great number of stamina, which 

 are connected in a column below, but are separated at their points, and ter- 

 minated by erect summits. The female flowers are disposed in a conical 

 shape, having no petals; these are placed in pairs under each scale, having 

 a small gerraen, supporting an awl-shaped style, crowned by a single stigma. 

 The germen afterwards becomes a nut, with a membranous wing inclosed 

 in the scales of the cones. 



312. This is a tree about which there is not much to be 

 said by me; because, whether as to the manner of collect- 



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