220 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Name of Copse 



or 



Plantation. 



No. of 

 Estate 

 Block. 



Church 



Plantation. 



Lemon's Firs, 



II. 



Area. Soil and Situation. 



Method of 

 Treatment. 



Acres 

 39 



A sandy soil, with 

 a fairly good layer 

 of dead leaves and 

 humus, which 

 keeps it fresh. 

 It is nearly level, 

 with undulations 

 here and there. 



High 

 Forest. 



II. 



On lower portion a 

 sandy soil with 

 a slight admix- 

 ture of loam, on 

 upper part a pure 

 sandy soil, but 

 all forming a good 

 fresh forest soil, 

 while well pro- 

 tected again st sun 

 and wind. The 

 area is a gentle 

 slope facing the 

 S.W. 



Young 



High 



Forest. 



with a few 



standard 



Scots pine. 



Description of Timber Crop. 



By far the greater part of the 

 area was planted with Scots 

 pine, irregularly, about 6 ft. 

 by 6 ft., in 1866-67. In con- 

 sequence of this wide planting, 

 the individual trees have run 

 early into branch formation ; 

 but this has already begun to 

 correct itself, through forma- 

 tion of canopy and dying off 

 of the lower branchlets. In 

 the better portions of the crop, 

 the trees are about 30 to 45 

 feet in height, with a maxi- 

 mum girth of 30 inches, while 

 in the other parts they vary 

 from about 25 to 35 feet in 

 height, and up to 26 inches in 

 maximum girth. Portions of 

 the plantation are overgrown 

 with bracken. 



The S. portion of the area, S. of 

 the fence and near the church- 

 yard, is intended to be treated 

 arboriculturally, and is omitted 

 from consideration in the 

 Working Plan. 



Originally, apparently, a crop of 

 Scots pine : this was cleared 

 about 1870, except a few 

 stems here and there with good 

 clean boles, which have been 

 retained to the number of 

 about a dozen altogether, now 

 ranging from about 4J to over 

 5 feet in girth at breast height. 

 Beneath these few standard 

 pine, oaks were planted in or 

 about 1870, which now vary 

 from about 18 to 30 feet in 

 height. These now form a 

 more or less broken canopy in 

 parts, while other portions are 

 blanks. Except in the best 

 parts, the soil is completely 

 covered with bracken. The 

 oaks look healthy, but their 

 development is branching, and 

 not good ; and it seems ques- 

 tionable that they will ever 

 form good boles, yielding high- 

 class timber. 



