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CorRourR. 
This is one of Sir John Stirling Maxwell’s Invernesshire estates 
and is reached from Corrour Station on the North British Railway. 
Corrour Lodge, Sir John’s residence, stands at the head of Loch 
Ossian and is about 5 miles distant from the station. At Corrour 
the railway reaches its highest point, 1350 feet, the surrounding 
country being very exposed and bleak. Loch Ossian is 1269 feet 
above sea level, and. the greater part of the planting has been 
done about its banks. Situated at a high altitude the ground is 
poor and boggy, and the growing season is a short one, severe frosts 
being experienced during May and October. Snow storms are 
frequent during winter and are often accompanied by biting winds, 
so that on the whole the conditions are very unfavourable for 
forestry operations, 
Handicapped as Sir John is by a difficult climate and poor, 
swampy ground at a high elevation, his planting is, perforce, of an 
experimental character. Perhaps his chief encouragement lies in 
the presence of butts of trees buried in the peat, which show, at any 
rate, that the ground was once capable of supporting their growth. 
e has, however, set himself the task of proving whether it is 
possible to grow trees under such unfavourable conditions, and no 
stone is being left unturned in his endeavour to solve the problem 
for the good of others less able to carry on expensive experiments. 
The experiments have been in progress for a period of 15 years 
and most of the earlier plantings have been failures. In the 
who puts two or three handsfull into each hole. The excavated 
soil is broken up small and the tree planted in much the same 
manner as a plant would be potted. It takes a year for the plant to 
become established during which little growth is made; but the 
second year it grows vigorously and forms a large quantity of roots; 
whereas trees plan under the old system, after several years in 
the Seon have scarcely any more roots than they had at the time 
of planting. , The third year the roots penetrate into the lower soil 
which by that time has become well aired and sweetened. It 
