. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. naryvigour, bearing great quantities of cones with ripeseed every year.^ All the trees of Larix pendulanow in cultivation are believed to be descendantsof the original tree at Mill Hill, being hybridsof the second, third, and fourth generations,and, as is the case with such descendants, arenot identical in appearance with the originalfirst cross, but exhibit every possible combina-tion of the parenta
. Coniferous trees for profit & ornament : being a concise description of each species and variety, with the most recently approved nomenclature, list of synonyms, and best methods of cultivation. naryvigour, bearing great quantities of cones with ripeseed every year.^ All the trees of Larix pendulanow in cultivation are believed to be descendantsof the original tree at Mill Hill, being hybridsof the second, third, and fourth generations,and, as is the case with such descendants, arenot identical in appearance with the originalfirst cross, but exhibit every possible combina-tion of the parental characters. Some are likeL. europcea, others resemble L. americana, andothers are intermediate in character. Seedlingsraised from trees of L, pendula appear to be equallyvariable. An old tree in the Pinetum at Wobumis believed to be the finest specimen of L. pendulain Great Britain, being now over 90 feet high and ^ A branch from this tree with flowers and cones is figured inLamberts work on Pinus and also in the Pinetum Woburnense, andthe specimens from the tree at Mill Hill on which Solander foundedhis original description of this larch are still preserved at the NaturalHistory Face page loo. LARIX PENDULA AT WOBURN. Showino; the smooth and fine-scaled bark. HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES loi 7 feet 6 inches in girth. As will be seen from theillustration, it has a remarkably smooth and fine-scaled bark, which closely resembles that of theAmerican Tamarac, one of the assumed great variation in the size of the cones is verynoticeable, some of these being as small as and others as large as the commonlarch. The statement by the earlier writers onconifers that Larix pendula was a native of NorthAmerica has never been confirmed by any com-petent observer on existing specimens, and onlyone specimen of larch, the Tamarac [L. americana),is known to exist on the eastern side of the RockyMountains. For much valuable information re-garding this, and species of
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