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ARBORETUM AN1) ERUTICETUM.

PART III.

80 ft. high, and 15 ft. in circumference above the roots, and which is calledthe Tall Larch. A larch at Kippenross, near Dumblane , in Stirlingshire,was measured by Mr. Blackadderin 1817, and again in 1832; whenit was found to be 15 ft. higher thanit was in 1817, and to contain 50 ad-ditional cubic feet of timber.

Geography. The European larchgrows on the Alps of France andSwitzerland, on the Apennines inItaly; on the mountains of Germany ,principally in the Tyrol; in Hungary ,and in different parts of the south ofRussia . On the Alps, it is foundat the elevation of 5000 ft., and onthe Carpathian Mountains at thatof 3000 ft. It is not found on thePyrenees ; nor in Spain, Sweden ,

Norway, or Britain . According toHdss and Willdenow , it is foundof the largest size in loamy soil,formed from the debris of graniticor slaty rocks; but it is also found oflarge size in calcareous soil; whereThe surface is kept cool by moisture.

In ascending the Simplon from theItalian side, a part of the road passes

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through a larch forest, in which there were some immense trees in 1819,growing on the steep sides of the mountains; and in Mr. Broekedon’s grandand picturesque views of the Tyrol, from which jigs. 2263. and 2264. are copied,the larch is, in all elevated and rocky situations, the prevailing tree.

History. The larch does not seem to have been known to the Greeks, asit is not mentioned by Theophrastus , or any Greek writer on plants, unless itbe, as some suppose, the Greek pitus, though this does not appear pro"