. 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 . aw it prior to * There can be no doubt that Larix leptolepis was the Larch seen by Kaempfer, andnot the Chinese tree that bears his name. Kaempfer was never in China, nor is the ChineseLurch wild or cultivated in Japan. M98 LAltTX LEITOLEPIS. the Opening of the ports to foreigners in 1859 ^vas Tliunherg, whoinchided it in his Flora -faiionica under the Linntean name ofPimis Laric
. 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 . aw it prior to * There can be no doubt that Larix leptolepis was the Larch seen by Kaempfer, andnot the Chinese tree that bears his name. Kaempfer was never in China, nor is the ChineseLurch wild or cultivated in Japan. M98 LAltTX LEITOLEPIS. the Opening of the ports to foreigners in 1859 ^vas Tliunherg, whoinchided it in his Flora -faiionica under the Linntean name ofPimis Laric in the belief that it was the European species; andSiebold, who figured and descrilied it as Abies Icptoleiyis. All ofthese had seen trees in cultivation only; it was first detected wildby the late John Gould Aeitch during his ascent of Fuji-yaniain I860, and liy whom it was introduced in the following year.*L(ri,v Jcptohyis has, at the present time, a somewhat restricted rangeon the central mountains of Japan, where it is not uncommon at5,000 — 6,000 feet elevation between 35-;50° and 38° north wood is hard, heavy and strong, Imt not nnich used on accountof the inaccessiliilitv of the Fi;^. lOi. Irptolejii:^. 1, St;iliiiii:ile,—2, (.)vuliffioiis .,, Mutuiv Com4 and >, front and liack ^?i(?^v of ovnliferoMs scale. Nat. size. In (ireat lUitain the best siitcimciis nf Ifjifdltin^ arc iiudiuiu-sizcd trees from 30 tn 3.^ or iiiorc IVct high with a Inoadly conicalhead when standing alnnc, and for tlic nmst ]iart of pleasing in a thriving condition it ; fully c([ual to tlic coimnon Larch asan ornamental tree ; the foliage is ligliter iu colour, of a softer .shadeof gi-een, contrasting nioie strongly with thai of the surromiding trees,and in antunm it dies otf with a riehei i^oldeii hue. The tree is growth than the coiniiion Laicli, and should not lie planted indry sandy soils. * The late Andrew Muriay
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