My larch is a weeping variety that has been trained to grow in an upward spiral. From Wordnik.com. [TimesArgus.com: Sports] Reference
A gum called larch-tree sulphur, chewed by both natives and settlers, is also obtained from these forests. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
This happens frequently in the larch and constantly in the. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Find in the Glossary the meaning of: stately; larch; channel. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
Read lines that tell why he asked the larch-tree for its roots. From Wordnik.com. [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference
In this respect the tree is like the larch and the bald cypress. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
There are nine recognized species of larch and two of bald cypress. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
Certainly there must grow in your neighborhood some larch or spruce trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1] Reference
And so, as that stronghold was called Larignum, the wood was called larch. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference
Juneberry, hickory, European larch, Norway maple and box elder for this purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 6 and 7, 1921] Reference
As a result, checks and ring shakes are very common in Western larch and hemlock. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
At this Ilse started rapping and spelt out the correct name -- the tree was a larch. From Wordnik.com. [Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals] Reference
All this time, Gray Mole had been busily gathering fibrous roots from the larch tree. From Wordnik.com. [Story Hour Readers — Book Three] Reference
We have already alluded to its deciduous character, in which it is allied to the larch. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882] Reference
The larch, especially the native species, forms the well-known tamarack swamps of the north. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
The tall magnolia lay broken in many pieces, the larch tree had been snapped like a rotten reed. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
What mattered the long lines of spruce, the dainty larch, or the tangled arbor-vitae, to her now?. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Dale's Camping Days] Reference
Spruce or fir in name, but resembling hard pine or larch in appearance, quality and uses of its wood. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
They adhere to the tree throughout the year, while the leaves of the larch and cypress shed in the fall. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
Four beds were given to two-year-old plants -- Norway spruce, white pine, European larch and Scotch pine. From Wordnik.com. [New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission] Reference
This is characteristic of all coniferous trees, except the larch and cypress, which shed their leaves in winter. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
They are neither arranged in clusters like those of the larch, nor in feathery layers like those of the cypress. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
France; on the Ubaye, in the midst of meadows, surrounded by mountains clothed with walnut, larch, and fir trees. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Poplar leaves, and pine, Douglas fir, and larch needles are very slow to decompose and may take three years or longer. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
It resembles spruce, but is easily distinguished from it, as well as from pine and larch, by the absence of resin ducts. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The larch differs from the bald cypress in the broader form of its crown and the cluster-like arrangement of its leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
For the most part these great forests are composed of evergreen trees, the fir, pine, larch, and pitch-pine predominating. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
How to tell them from each other: In summer the larch may be told from the cypress by its leaves (compare Figs. 14 and 16). From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
In the Bitterroot Mountains, the low country tends to be dominated by fire-resistant trees like ponderosa pine and Western larch. From Wordnik.com. [Flaming Fury] Reference
It was situated in the middle of a flowery vale, watered by cool and refreshing streams, and shaded by groves of larch and cypress. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
At its farthest point there was a lake, surrounded by a dense growth of Scotch larch-trees, which formed a very good place for such. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
The larch is characteristically a northern tree, growing in the northern and mountainous regions of the northern hemisphere from the. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
Commercial value: Because its wood is strong and durable the larch is valuable for poles, posts, railroad ties, and in shipbuilding. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of Trees] Reference
Toward the end of the day the way became steeper and wilder, ascending between slopes well wooded with spruce and pine and larch and birch. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
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