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The Larch.

" I wonder more Larch are not planted in this country " said Mr Bauckham to a representative of tha Herald the other day. "It is the toughest wood and tha moat pliable far boat building. We used to keap laths of it in our sheds and when shipowners came down to give an order for a set of boats and they suggested elm, we used to recommend larch and we would take down a ' lath and bending it round our knee tie it in a knot without cracking it. It generally ended in the boats being built with larch." Speaking further on the wonderful properties of this wood Mr Bauokham said a chisel could be driven through a plank and withdrawn and the hole wtfuld at once olose up. It would be> juat the timber for snags, as a hole could be pushed through a boat, which, when lifted off, would fill up as fight aa ' anything. Accepting Mr Bauokham's statements it is worth while more seriously considering the growth of this tree and we obtain the following, information from a welNknown work called "The Forester" by James Brown, Tbt Larch (Larix Europea) is. decidedly one of the most valuable' of the coniferous trees yet introduced into England, both in respect of the quick progress which it makes, and of the real value of its timber. Thtra are two varieties generally found in cultivation in Scotland, namely the white and the red. The white ii the variety which attains the .great* est dimensions of timber. As to the durability of the larch wood, it is allowed by all who ar« at all acquainted with the tree, and who have had oooasion to use tbt timber, to be decidedly the toughest and most lasting of all the coniferous tiibe we are yet acquainted with. There is also a peculiar feature characterising the wood, namely, its being durable and tough when only of a few years' growth. When I put up a larch paling with wood from 10 to 30 yoars old, I reckon that the same should last from 15 to 20 years. Larch posts are expected to last from 8 to 10 years in the ground, but gate posti made of wood 80 to 40 years old should keap good from 15 to 20 years. qp 1 -"—^ ■■ --"'-i

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Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1896, Page 2

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The Larch. Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1896, Page 2

The Larch. Manawatu Herald, 9 June 1896, Page 2

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