. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . 1,000 to 1,500 feet abovesea-level, and subsequently hesaw others on a sloping hill atQuanting, twenty miles distant,localities not found on modernmaps. As the trees in bothplaces appeared to him to havebeen planted, the origin of thespecies remains in Chinese Larch was for a Ljug time very rare in British about a dozen plants were raised from the see
. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . 1,000 to 1,500 feet abovesea-level, and subsequently hesaw others on a sloping hill atQuanting, twenty miles distant,localities not found on modernmaps. As the trees in bothplaces appeared to him to havebeen planted, the origin of thespecies remains in Chinese Larch was for a Ljug time very rare in British about a dozen plants were raised from the seeds collected byFortune, and propagation by layering from such of these as wereavailable for the purpose was the only means of increasing the numbertill the recent coning of the tree at Pallanza, whence seeds and seedlingshave since been distributed. It has proved hardy Avherever it hasbeen planted, and is a beautiful and interesting tree, especially inautunui when the leaves before falling take on a golden yellow ofexceptional richness. It has also proved hardy in the XeAv EnglandStates of North America where the Avinters are much colder and thesummers hotter and drier than ours, a circumstance which seems to. Fig. 100. Cone of Lnricopsis Kcempfcri. 406 CEDRUS. indicate that the tree is of iiortheru origin. Among the finest specinionsin tliis country are those at Panjerrick, near Fahnoiith ; Scorrier, nearTruro; Carclew, Tortworth Court and Penrhyn Castk\ The species was named hy Lindley after Kaiunpfer, the first Europeannaturahst who visited Japan, under the erroneous impression that itwas the Larch mentioned by him in the narrative of his travels, butas aheady stated lender Larix lepfolepis, the tree is not known inJapan, and Lindleys name is thence Avrongly applied; that of its discovererwould be more appropriate, as proposed by Mayr.* Engelbert Kaempfer (1651—1716) was a native of the princi})ality of Lippe-Detiiioldin Germany. After passing through several schools, he s
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