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By Rebecca Smith
Ms. Smith writes about rural Britain. She wrote from Dunkeld, Scotland.
As trees go, it wasn’t that impressive. Its branches were a little crooked, one stuck out at a right angle like a broken arm, and its needles had all but fallen off in the last cold snap.
But it didn’t matter. I liked this tree. The Parent Larch, as it is known, is nearly 300 years old and one of the first — if not the first — European larch planted in Britain from a handful gifted to the Duke of Atholl in the early 18th century.
