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sycamore is 123 ft., and it is upwards of 70 ft. high. The girt 
of a sweet chestnut, at 18 in. from the ground, is 10 ft. 7 in., 
and it is above 80 ft. high. Mr. M‘Nab, my factor, adds, 
‘ Had I measured them at the surface of the ground, they would 
have been one third more, in consequence of the roots spreading 
so much as they do. Mr. Hannay sold the property of Bar- 
galiy to. my father in 1792.” 
“© It is recorded of Mr. Heron, that he went to visit a garden 
in the neighbourhood of London, and very much astonished 
the principal gardener, to whom he was a stranger, with the 
botanical knowledge he displayed; and the gardener having 
shown him an exotic, which he felt confident Mr. Heron had 
never seen, he exclaimed, on Mr. Heron’s readily naming it, 
‘ Then, Sir, you must either be the devil or Andrew Heron of 
Bargally ;’ thereby intimating that Mr. Heron was proverbial, in 
those days, as a botanist, even with those who had never seen 
him.” 
Dr. Walker, in his Zssays (p. 32.), mentions several firs and 
pines at Bargally, of large dimensions, which no longer exist. A 
fir, he says, which was planted in 1697, measured, in 1780, 90 ft. 
in height. He states that the oldest and largest arbor vitee in 
Scotland was at Bargally: it measured, in 1780, 5 ft. 4 in. in 
girt at 4 ft. from the ground, and was 40 ft. high. He also 
mentions a flowering ash (O’rnus europeea), which was cut 
down in 1780, and 7 ft. of the trunk quartered to make four 
axles to carts; it was a remarkably handsome tree, 6 ft. 3 in. in 
circumference at 4 ft. from the ground, and 50 ft. high. Dr. 
Walker mentions large evergreen oaks, horsechestnuts, and 
many other species, of extraordinary dimensions. ‘The present 
proprietor is much attached to this beautiful place, takes the 
greatest care of the trees, and has lately repaired the tomb of 
their planter. 
We took notes ourselves (in 1831) of several remarkable 
trees at Bargally, including a large lime tree and a number 
of beautiful variegated hollies from 20 ft. to 26 ft. in height, and 
with trunks from 15 in. to 2 ft. in diameter. Altogether the 
place is one of very great interest, not only on account of its 
venerable foreign trees and the tomb of Heron, but from the 
romantic beauty of the situation, and from the district in which. 
it lies being one of the finest, in point of scenery, in the west of 
Scotland. 
Dunkeld, where, it appears, the Weymouth Pine was first in- 
troduced into Scotland, was, in 1727, the property of James 
Murray, Duke of Athol; the friend and distant relative of John 
and Archibald, Dukes of Argyll. Dunkeld is celebrated for 
having been one of the first places where the larch was planted 
in Scotland; the plants of which, it is said, were sent from 
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