. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. I catkins appear in April, the former being sessile uponthe branchlets, of a globular shape and yellow colour;the young cones are of a beautiful,rosy red, varying in some to areddish, in others, to a yellowish,white, but as they ripen they changeto a wood brown ; they stand erectupon a strong bent footstalk, andwhen fullgrown are upwards of aninch in length; the scales are striatedand persistent, round, and slightlywaved on the margin. The seed is of an ovate shape, and half surrounded by the broad mem-branaceous wing, or pericarp
. A history of British forest-trees, indigenous and introduced. I catkins appear in April, the former being sessile uponthe branchlets, of a globular shape and yellow colour;the young cones are of a beautiful,rosy red, varying in some to areddish, in others, to a yellowish,white, but as they ripen they changeto a wood brown ; they stand erectupon a strong bent footstalk, andwhen fullgrown are upwards of aninch in length; the scales are striatedand persistent, round, and slightlywaved on the margin. The seed is of an ovate shape, and half surrounded by the broad mem-branaceous wing, or pericarp. The young plant rises withfrom five to seven cotyledons. In favourable situations, and in its native habitats inAlpine regions, it grows to a height of from eighty toupwards of one hundred feet, with a diameter of trunkof from three to five feet. Trees of dimensions equal to. THE COMMON LARCH. 487 the above are now by no means rare, either in Scotlandor in parts of England, though the introduction of thespecies took place not much more than a century ago. At Dunkeld, two of the original trees introduced fromthe continent, which are still in a thriving and healthystate, as well as many of their progeny, both aroundDunkeld and at Blair Athol, are of these are those also at Dalwick, in Peebleshire, the seatof Sir J. M. Nasmyth, Bart., which are said to have beenplanted in 1725, and if so, must be considered the oldestLarches in Scotland, portraits of two of which, viz., thecrooked and the tall Larch, are given in Loudons Arbo-retum. At Monzie, in Ar-gyleshire, also, the Larchesplanted in 1738 are well knownfor their great size and height,and the amount of cubical tim-ber they contain, and, indeed,upon almost all properties ofany extent, Larches are nowto be met with of large andvaluable dimensions. TheLarch, unlike the Spruce andSilver Firs,
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