AMERICAN LARCH. 
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PLATE CLII. 
A branch with a cone of the natural size. Fig. 1 , A leaf. Fig. 2, A seed. 
[This graceful and beautiful tree connects the arbor vitæ -with the 
Cypresses, having the characters of both ; the scale-like, imbricate leaves, 
and fan-shaped branches of the former, and the lofty port and globular 
or many-sided fruit of the latter. It should be extensively cultivated, 
and is attended with less expense and trouble than any other forest tree, 
and it conflicts with no other. Sow the seeds abundantly on cold, swampy 
land, in the fall of the year, upon the.,surface of the ground or water, and 
in six or eighteen months they will vegetate. In a few years thinnings 
might be made, which for enclosures alone, would pay a high rate of 
interest upon the value of the land and of the labor bestowed. Umerson.'J 
AMERICAN LARCH. 
Lahix ameeicana. L. foliis brevioribus , deciduis ; strobilis parvis, ovoideo-sub- 
globosis ; squamis paucioribus. 
In the north of the United States this tree is commonly designated by 
the name of Hackmatack, but I have preferred that of American Larch, 
which is not unknown where the other is habitually used. The French 
Canadians call it Epinette rouge. 
The European and American Larches are more strictly confined than 
any other resinous trees to the northern zone of the two Continents, and 
they are the first to disappear in approaching a milder sky. The American 
species is most abundant in Vermont, New Hampshire, and the District of 
Maine ; but though the soil is well adapted to its growth and the winter is 
long and severe, it does not form the hundredth part of the resinous growth, 
which consists principally of the Black Spruce, the Hemlock Spruce and 
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