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ABIES KiEMPFERl. 



Chap. XIII. 



access even to invalids, and could be reached in a 

 day and a lialf, or at most two days from Ningpo. 



I have already noticed a new cedar or larch-tree 

 named Abies Kcempfein discovered amongst these 

 mountains. I had been acquainted with this inte- 



Larch Tree. 



resting tree for several years in China, but only in 

 gardens, and as a pot plant in a dwarfed state. 

 The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarf- 

 ing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and 

 a half or two feet high, have all the characters of 



