234 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBOHICULTURAL SOCIKTY. 



Name of Copse 



or 



Plantation. 



The Alder Bed, 



Rhode Plantation. IX. 



10 



Temple Larches, IX. 



Soil and Situation. 



A loamy clay ; fer- 

 tile, but heavy 

 and moist. 



A. loamy clay, 

 formed from the 

 decomposition of 

 the Upper Green - 

 sand. It forms 

 a good deep soil 

 on the upper por- 

 tions, but is 

 shallower and in- 

 clined to be wet 

 in the low-lying 

 hollows. The 

 area slopes with 

 an E. aspect. 



Method of 

 Treatment. 



Copse. 



A loamy clay soil, 

 having a gentle 

 slope towards 

 N.E. A good, 



Young 



plantation 



for High 



Forest. 



Description of Timber Crop. 



Plantation 



for High 



Forest. 



Standards fairly numerous, chiefly 

 of oak, up to 5 feet in girth, 

 with a few smaller ash. The 

 oak standards have large and 

 branching crowns. The cop- 

 pice consists mainly of withy 

 and alder, with some ash. It 

 is rather sparse, and with 

 lilanks here and there taken 

 up by hlack berries and other 

 weeds. 



Thrown out of arable cultivation 

 in 1895 and 1896. Part of the 

 area was planted in 1895-96 

 (mostly in spring of 1896) with 

 Douglas fir at 16 ft. by 16 ft., 

 Corsican pine, spruce, and 

 Scots pine at 8 ft. by 8 ft., 

 and larch at 4 ft. by 4 ft. 

 between the other plants. 

 Blanks have since been filled 

 with poplar, ash, and syca- 

 more. 



In the good portions, the growth 

 is all that can be desired. The 

 larch have made shoots up to 

 3 feet 6 inches in length during 

 1899, and the Douglas fir up 

 to 4 feet 3 inches, while the 

 Corsican pine has also done 

 well. The spruce have only 

 just established themselves, 

 but are now beginning to grow 

 energetically. 



The W. portion of the plantation 

 was formed in 1897 with Cor- 

 sican pine at 8 ft. by 8 ft. , and 

 ash and sycamore alternately 

 at 8 ft. by 8 ft. in between 

 those. Blanks were filled in 

 1898 with ash and Corsican 

 pine. They are doing as well 

 as can be expected after two 

 such abnormally hot and dry 

 summers in succession. 



The greater portion was planted 

 in 1886 with alternate ash and 

 larch at about 1\ to 3 feet a] lart. 

 The larch now forma the pre- 



