Trees and tree drawing; . ance, while at others it is an example of the ruggedand battered picturesque. Its stem is straight andcontinuous to its top, a true stem like all the Conifers ;it is coated with thick dark grey and reddish bark,which is deeply fissured. Its root system is mainlylateral, causing the stem to splay at its base and en-abling the tree to live on rocky ground by its powerof sending down root branches at some distance fromthe tree itself, and its branches leave the tree at anobtuse angle. It is the tree with the most downwardgrowing branches of any of our trees. Its leaves a
Trees and tree drawing; . ance, while at others it is an example of the ruggedand battered picturesque. Its stem is straight andcontinuous to its top, a true stem like all the Conifers ;it is coated with thick dark grey and reddish bark,which is deeply fissured. Its root system is mainlylateral, causing the stem to splay at its base and en-abling the tree to live on rocky ground by its powerof sending down root branches at some distance fromthe tree itself, and its branches leave the tree at anobtuse angle. It is the tree with the most downwardgrowing branches of any of our trees. Its leaves are needles growing in tufts. The male flower is yellowand the female purplish. They are placed on thedownward-growing final twigs. The fruits are smallcones, which, although growing on the twigs that hangstraight down, always point upwards. The tree is nota native of England, but was introduced before winters of this country are not long or severe ]0J TREES AND TREE DRAWING. ?^^^ 7^k i-i:L^.ii~ ^•>^:-:¥... ,.crJ LARCH :<;«»a^:~r TEEES AND TREE DRAWING. 105 enough to make its timber of the best quahty, so it isnot so generally planted here as it might otherwise havebeen. It will, however, sometimes pass the height of onehundred feet, and, though a mountain tree, it grows onvarious soils and situations, provided always that it hasplenty of light. It has all the character of a hght-loving tree—thick bark, rapid growth when young, andthin foliage that casts but little shadow. The general appearance of the Larch in winter is highlydecorative, with its upright stem and downward tendingbranches, which, rising again towards their outer ends,are hung with long pendant twigs, studded with tinycones ; but it is in the early spring that it becomes thewonder of the woodlands, when it covers itself with amiraculous green mist of needles, a green so vivid as tohave nothing that approaches it on the palette, but thatcan only be suggested by juxtaposition of other
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