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lofty character, to one of almost horizontal form. In foliage it 
is light and open, feathery, and together with its wood studded 
with long pointed thorns, and seed pods of five or six inches in 
length, which hang on all winter, create for it a tree very 
desirable in the composition of groups, and also for roadsides 
or streets where only a partial, not deep, shade is desirable. 
Fig. 9.— Larch. 
Larch — Larix. — The European larch ( larix Europea) is a tree 
almost indispensable in ornamental planting of grounds. Seem- 
ingly indifferent as to the nature of the soil, it grows with sur- 
prising rapidity in thin, poor, light sands, in wet, boggy loams, 
high rocky knolls, or in rich garden loam. Downing says, “ It 
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