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Title: 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
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Kent, Adolphus Henry Veitch, James Herbert, 1868-1907 James Veitch & Sons
Subjects: Conifers Conifers
Publisher: Chelsea : J. Veitch
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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r Himalaya, it is a graceful tree of slender habitand sparse foliage ; its long pensile branchlets are set in motion bythe slightest breeze, and in a heavy gale arc so completely blown onone side that the tree appears lop-sided. It was discovered inwestern Bliotan in 1S37 by AVilliam (Jritflth whose enormous collectionof herbarium specimens lay buried for many years in the cellars of 396 LAKIX GKIFFITHII. the old East India House in Liadciiliall Street, so tliat this Larchremained unknown to science till it Mas rediscover(;d by Sir -losephHooker in Sikkini in 1848, and who sent seeds to the Royal Gardensat Kew, which germinated freely and the seedlings were widelydistributed but nearly all idtimately succumbed either to climate ordisease. Repeated importations of seeds since, have met with nobetter fate. ()ne survivor of the first batch of seedlings supposed tohave been presented to the late Mr. Wentworth BuUer, is growing inthe grounds of Mr. H. M. Imbert Terrv, at Strete Ralegh near
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Fig. 101. hn-ir (! iffithii. A, branchlet witli .staminate—b, with oviilifiioiis flowins.(^villiferous scale 1, dor.sal—2, ventral side. Exeter, which is now upwards of 40 feet liigh and attracts attentionby its marked unlikeness to any of the surrounding trees. Anothertree 50 feet liigh of whicli a l)ranch with cones is figured in theGardeners Chronicle of October 9th, 1896, is (or was) standing inthe grounds of Major-General Jago-Trelawny at Coldrenick in Cornwall.The species pca-petuates the name of oni; of the. most indefatigableof the earlier botanical explf»rers of India, who unfortunately succumbedto the climate at a comparatively early age. LAKIX LEPTOLEIIS. 397 William Gkifi-mtii (ISIO—1845) completed liis education at University College,London, where he distinguished himself in the medical classes, especially that ofBotany, of which Dr. Lindlcy was the Professor. He went to India in 1832 as assistantsurgeon on the Madras estaVilishment, and was sliortl\- afterwards ap

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