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perhaps more valuable, as being more rare, — the expression 
of boldness, and picturesqueness, peculiar to itself, and 
which it seems to have caught from the wild and rugged 
chasms, rocks, and precipices of its native mountains. 
There its irregular and spiry top, and branches, harmonize 
admirably with the abrupt variation of the surrounding 
hills, and suit well the gloomy grandeur of those frowning 
heights. 
[Fig. 36. The European Larch.] 
Like all highly expressive and characteristic trees, much 
more care is necessary in introducing the Larch into artifi- 
cial scenery judiciously, than round-headed trees. If planted 
in abundance, it becomes monotonous, from the similitude of 
