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first year, but when established, leads 18 inches in length are 
common. Spruce appears to suffer rather badly the first year or 
two after fag put out but Saileaes recovers and grows rapidly. 
A few Douglas fir were seen here and there. r. Bewick is of 
opinion, however, that this tree ‘ait thrive best as a pure wood. 
In all new plantations corners are being left for game cover and 
in those corners everything will be sacrificed for the sake of cover. 
The rides are so arranged that they lead to these parts, so that 
during shooting operations, the guns may be stationed in the rides 
about the covers, the game being driven to those particular places. 
It is considered = this ‘will be an advantage to both the woods 
and the game keepe 
As itisa tinting country provision has been made for keeping 
horsemen off the young trees by marking out the rides with stakes 
from 6 to 8 feet in height. One young plantation I passed through 
had a rank undergrowth of broom and gorse. This, I was informed, 
sprang up naturally after an oak wood about 200 years old ha 
been felled and the idea is that the seed had been in the ground 
and lain dormant until the soil was disturbed. At any rate there 
is no other broom or gorse in the immediate neighbourhood. How 
long broom and gorse had been absent from the wood was not 
known 
Larch disease is rather prevalent and larch aphis is found in most 
of the young plantations. For this reason the proportion of larch 
to other trees planted has been reduced about one-half. Some of 
the older larch about the estate show that they have been diseased 
in their younger ede but appear to have grown out of it now 
That larch thrives in the neighbourhood is clear from the 
numerous fine senses to be seen. One specimen noted is about 
115 feet high, with a girth of 9 feet 6 inches at 4 feet above the 
ground. This has been calculated to contain from 240 to 250 feet 
of timber and to be worth about £15. An outlying plantation, 
formed principally of Scots pine, was badly attacked, a few years 
ago, by oA ape saw-fly. This has been practically cured by han 
icking during the larval stage, though it took several years to 
Sseonrplish. 
Fine individual trees of oak, beech, spruce, silver fir and sweet 
chestnut were noted. 
Haypon Briper.—Nov. 26. 
A visit was paid to Haydon Bridge, which is gy $e about 
acai a between Newcastle and Carlisle, es the 32 e of “Abort 
eee the Becta = the Roya 
Mr. 
nae J. E. Rogerson. The princi ) woods stand in very 
exp ith a ipa young 500 and 600 feet, a 
are composed mainly of Scots pine. Haydon wood was p anted 
about 30 years ago and is about 7 soe in extent. The trees are 
from 40 to 45 feet high and of 10 consecutive trees the girths 
were 42, 31, 38, 30, 20, 32, 31, 25, 21, and 34 inches respectively. 
S The, wood has, however, been rather over-thinned and the trees 
