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Many years ago someone at Dawyck planted large numbers 

 of Pinus Cemhra, a pine whicL has rarely been planted in any 

 quantity. Many of the trees have been blown down in storms, 

 but those that remain must, taken as a whole, be amongst the 

 largest in the kingdom. One finely proportioned tree over 50 ft, 

 high has a trunk girthing 5 ft. This pine appears to have little 

 to recommend it for planting under forestry conditions in this 



country. 



The lime avenues radiating north and east of the house were 

 planted about 200 years ago and are still intact; but of the horse 

 chestnuts of an even earlier date, few are left. The two men- 

 tioned by J. Walker in ''Essays on Natural History," as being, 

 when he wrote in 1812, 150 years old, and the first planted in 

 Scotland, still remain, though a good deal decayed. Sir Walter 



bcott used to visit Dawyck and take pleasure in sitting under 

 these trees. 



Mr 



sides of his estate up to 1000 and 1200 ft. with plantations of 

 forest trees. Besides great stretches of common larch he has, 

 for instance, sixty acres of Japanese larch (Larix leptolems) 

 and a large area of Douglas fir. But the most interesting part 

 ot his planting is where he is leaving the beaten track. He has, 

 lor example, a plantation of Pinus monticola, a comparativelv 



t!!^'''' . /•"''■Tr ^l^' ^^ ^^''' ^°^^^^7 ^^^ tte West American 

 xepreseiitativft of flip lVoTTmr.T,4^i. ^:^.„ //J o. 7 \ -r, - .1 . . 



Strohus). It is thriving 



exi lemely well, and Mr. Balfour thinks highly of it. Keithe? 

 to be l""'!" '^^ deer interfere, with it, and its timber is known 

 nrp nlo?. K • -^^^^^si^e^pkntings of the new Larix occidentalis 



of thl qiff"'?''^'''^'-. J^""" ^'^"^ «°^^ ^^^J thriving plantations 

 Scot nn^ f^ ^'""-^ ^K''T -^^■*'^^««^"). and here as elsewhere in 

 The Latl "^""TV ? ^^ °^^^ -^^ *^« " ^est of American trees. 

 ■I^u^HZfT^ """fX ^^^''.'''' ^^^ succeeding well, but of 

 destroved if « ^'^''"' ^t' \^^^ Oigantea), thousands have been 

 Sed^stcl. ^M'"'"%'\f' V ^ parasitic fungus. Of broad- 



mountains of W 



sides are alreidv fiTJ / vv esiern unina. Sites on the hill- 

 their growth tifl t'Li^ *' vwf ^''''' ^^^ ^* ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^ 



tHroug\out thlcLntrv t7^-. . Jr^'^* ^^*^^^^* ^^ ^^^^^*^^^ 

 produling trees that ?av.K 'P'*' f *^ ^"^^* number of timber- 

 abroad, fery few havelr ^'5 introduced to this country from 

 under forest conditions A J T'^'^ ""^^^ economic value 



that will do ioTBv\llh 7^ f""^ '^^'^ '^^^ fi^^ ^ single species 

 instance, has done wHl l.^f " '^ "^'* ^^' ^«"^-«^ ^^'<^i f«' 

 gratitude. ExperJmlntel V^ ? ''''''''^'^^ ^^^^*^^' ^ ^^avy debt of 

 ^>y Hr. BalfoufVJ iwlll"^*^^-', ^"S^ ^s is being carried on 



o^e a work of national importance. 



