222 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Name of Copse 

 or 



Plantation. 



Eveley Field 



Larches, 



No. of 

 Estate 

 Block. 



II 



Acres 

 5 



„ ., , _.. .. Method of 



Soil and Situation. Treatment , 



Description of Timber Crop. 



4 



loamy sand, of Larch 

 better quality ! poles, j 

 than the soils of intended toi 

 the neighbouring form High | 

 plantations Forest. 



Eveley Field 



Larches. 



II 



Vicarage 



Plantation, 



III. 



Thrown out of arable cultivation 

 in 1885, the land was planted 

 during that autumn with pure 

 larch, at from 2 J to 3^ feet 

 apart. At first the growth was 

 very good, but in 1890 and 

 1891 serious attacks of larch 

 canker became noticeable, and 

 heavy thinnings had conse- 

 quently to be made. The 

 result is that the young poles, 

 now varying from about 12 to 

 18 feet in height, stand almost 

 completely isolated, and have 

 consequently failed to form 

 canopy. 



As in II. c, of which 

 this originally 

 formed part. 



Young Only about one-quarter of area 

 High still remains under larch, as 



Forest of ' originally planted in spring of 

 pine and 1887, on land then thrown out 



larch, of cultivation. This is of better 



of different growth than the crop on II. c, 

 ages. canopy being almost formed in 



parts. But larch canker is 

 here also general. The height 

 of the poles varies from about 

 IS up to 25 feet, and girth 

 runs up to 13 or 14 inches. 

 Over about three-quarters of 

 the area the young plants put 

 out were killed by drought in 

 1887, and the land was left 

 vacant (except a portion used 

 as a nursery) till 1897, when 

 it was planted up with Scots 

 pine and a few spruce, with 

 occasional Weymouth and 

 Oorsican pines. This part 

 looks healthy, save here and 

 there, where plants have died 

 from drought and "leaf-shed- 

 ding" 



14 



A sandy soil, simi- 

 lar to that of 

 II. A, of which it 

 forms the higher 

 portion, being 



High On the level portion the crop is 



Forest. similar to the adjoining II. A, 



on the other side of the public 



road. A few larches, survivors 



of some put out along with the 



