IRISH GARDENING. 



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Correspondence — continued. 



Larch Planting in Ireland. 



Sir, — Will you kindly allow me a space in your 

 columns reg-arding the growing of larch in Co. Meath, 

 which is the leading industry around Aghir, Summer 

 Hill. About 13a years ago there was no such thing as 

 larch in this country, only one larch tree that grew in 

 Dangan, once the seat of'the Duke of Wellington, and 

 one of his foresters pulled some seed from this tree, 

 and, sowing them, succeeded in raising 20,000 young 

 larch. As the fairs were then few and far between, he 

 went with them to the fair of Balanoslow, where he 

 succeeded in selling them for ^1,000, and from that 

 date to this it has been the leading industry in this 

 neighbourhood. I am sorry to say the sales of this 

 season are bad, for a nursery requires a good capital, 

 and, needless to say, only for the good Scotch and 

 Englishmen the business would have been wiped out 

 100 years ago. Up to the last two years 30 million 

 seedlings have been sent out from Co. Meath yearly. 

 I have myself sold to one nursery man 2,000,000 seed- 

 lings a year. He bought none this season, and that 

 loss I deeply deplore. 



I sincerely wish the business could be revived, and 

 given a chance once again, as this nursery gave work 

 to over 200 people, and in the months of August and 

 September the nursery gardens are a scenery. I hope 

 that the future will bring brighter days to our old 

 industry. 



M. A. Healv, 



.\ghir Nurseries, Co. Meath. 



Larch Disease. — Following our article on the Larch 

 in last month's issue, Messrs. Wm. Power & Co., of 

 Waterford, issues " A Warning " to Irish planters, a 

 copy of which is enclosed as an inset in the present 

 number. 



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