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larchAny of a group of trees belonging to the pine family. The common larch (L. decidua) grows to 40 m/130 ft. It is one of the few conifers to shed its leaves annually. The small needlelike leaves are replaced every year by new bright-green foliage, which later darkens. (Genus Larix, family Pinaceae.) Closely resembling it is the North American tamarack (L. laricina), and both are timber trees. The golden larch (Pseudolarix amabilis), a native of China, turns golden in autumn. |
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So steep were the rocky banks on either side of them, that the larch and the pine seemed to be suspended over their heads, and to need only a gust of wind to come hurtling down upon them. All I say is that you can put up larch and make a temp'ry job of it; and by the time the young master's married it'll have to be done again. A considerable flight of steps landed them in the wilderness, which was a planted wood of about two acres, and though chiefly of larch and laurel, and beech cut down, and though laid out with too much regularity, was darkness and shade, and natural beauty, compared with the bowling-green and the terrace. |
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