140 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



We give, by the courtesy of the proprietors of the North 

 British Agriculturist, four photographs of the Lovat woods. 

 No. 1 shows a part of Cononbank plantation. It is taken from 

 the edge of one of the roads systematically laid out in all the 

 Beaufort plantations. 



No. 1. 



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No. 3. 



No. 4. 



An older adjoining portion of the Long Wood was traversed. 

 In it the trees consist of Scots fir, seventy or eighty years old. 

 Larches of the same age had recently been removed ; and the firs 

 are to be cut down, so that the whole area may be replanted. In 



