It is sometimes styled Larchmont " Manor" but as this sketch shows the Neck upon which it is situated never was either a Manor or part of a Manor. The Munro farm was very large and the extent of the part of it below the Boston Road, some 330 acres, and the large Munro House now the chief Hotel, suggested the idea of calling it a " Manor " to the first organizers of the enterprise simply to give it prestige and name. No pleasanter place can be fWund near New York for a summer home.

The origin of the name Larchmont is a little odd, as neither larches nor hilLs are indigenous to the Neck. When Mr. ilunro built iiis house, he wished to plant a quick growing grove of trees along the turn|)ike road west of his entrance. His Scotch gardener, a man of the name of Rae, suggested the

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larches of his native land as they grow very rapidly indeed, and offered to send to his relatives in Scotland for seed. Mr. Munro assented, the seed came, the trees were planted, and answered the purpose admirably for about twenty or twenty five years, then they grew scraggy, began to die, and were gradually removed, the last of them during Mr. Collins' ownership, by whom the name was given to the place while it was his. This was the origin of the Scotch Larch in Westchester County, neither a handsome, nor long lived tree and not an acquisition of value. The "Mont " Mr. Collins evolved from his own consciousness, perhaps because the larch grows chiefly upon hills in its native land.