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tlic notable trees clironidiMl by l)r Walker, Sir T. I). Lauder, 

 and ollicrs, it still remains, bclure referring to tlie list we liave 

 tahnlated and a])])cnded to this rejjort, to notice the existence 

 and coniUtion, at the present chiy, of otliers still surviving, and 

 whose dimensions are recorded in J)r Walker's and other cata- 

 logue's. The ash at Earl's Mill (1 )arnaway), in Morayshire, which 

 Sir T. D. Lauder in 1826 states to have measured 1(5 feet in 

 girth at 3 feet from the ground, is still in existence, but is now 

 a mere shell, girthing at 1 foot liigh 20 feet 6 inches, and 18 feet 

 5 inches at 5 feet from the ground. It is 60 feet in height, and 

 has a clear bole of 10 fe(>t (see Ap])endix). The old ash noticed 

 by ])r Walkci- as growing in the fruit garden at Loudoun 

 Castle in Ayrshire, still survives. It was in October 177(1 

 9 feet 7 inches in girth at 4 feet above the ground, and in 

 September 1879 it was found to be 21 feet 8 inches at 1 foot, 

 and 13 feet 4 inches at 5 f(!et from the ground, with a bole of 

 15 feet, and a total height of 80 feet. It growls in black loam on 

 a clayey subsoil at an altitude of 259 feet, and is exposed to the 

 west. Its toy) is now dead, but its lateral branches still bear 

 good foliage, although its trunk shows symptoms of decay. The ash 

 at Lochwood Castle, Dumfriesshire, wliich, growing in a high and 

 exposed situation (about 900 feet altitude), girthed, on 29th April 

 l77o, 10 feet 6 inches at 4 feet from the ground, being then 

 70 feet high and quite fresh and vigorous, still survives in 

 pristine vigour, and measured in September 1879 21 feet 

 2 inches at a foot above ground, and 17 feet at 5 feet, being 

 about 80 feet in height, with a l)ole of 9 feet 3 inches in lengtli. 

 The Newl)attlc ash, which on 6th July 1789 measured 11 feet 

 4 inches, still survives, and, althougli showing signs of being in- 

 ternally decayed, produces abundance of healthy foliage. This 

 tree in 1863 measured 14 feet in circumference at 3 feet from 

 the ground, and is now (1879) 21 feet 4 inches at 1 foot, 15 feet 

 2 inches at 3 feet, and 14 feet 4 inches at 5 feet from the ground. 

 This tree is as remarkable for its length of l)ole and lofty 

 head as for its other dimensions; the Ixile is nearly 50 feet in 

 length, and had the tree not had the misfortune to lose, very 

 many years ago, a great ])art of its head, it would have now been 

 ])rol)ably the tallest ash in Scotland. Before this accident befel 

 it, Lord Ancruiu had its height accurately taken, and it was then 

 found to be 112 feet. This nnist have been about the year 1790, 

 as I)r Walker in 1812 notices the fact that a great part of its 

 head had, since its measurement in (jirth in July 1789, been 

 broken over by a storm. The ash on the island in Lochleven, 

 which on 17th September 1796 measured 12 feet in girth at 

 4 feet from the ground, still survives, Imt is nnich decayed. It 

 was split by lightning in I8UI, and has never recovered from tlie 

 damage then sustained. This tree is sometimes called " Queen 



