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Nursed with the usual forest trees, it is now well established, 
and remains healthy‘and vigorous, especially on virgin soil. Of 
these low ground plantations there is about 500 acres, which are 
carrying a healthy crop from ten to forty years of age. In 
more recent years extensive plantations have been formed, and 
within the last six years 300 acres have been planted with larch, 
Scots fir, and spruce. Douglas fir and hardwoods have been 
introduced where the soil was adapted for them. These young 
woods are in the most promising condition. They are well 
cared for, and protected with rabbit-proof fences. With the 
exception of a few small patches, none of the woodlands on the 
estate are vacant, and to these attention is now being directed, 
so that there will soon be nothing left for the planter’s opera- 
tions. The woods and plantations on the Falkland estate 
extend to about 1500 acres in all, and comprise some of the 
healthiest plantations in the county of Fife.” 
Leaving Falkland, the route was across the Howe of Fife, 
past Strathmiglo and the rural village of Gateside, and across 
the Ochils through the richly wooded and romantic Glenfarg 
into lower Strathearn. The well-known glowing description of 
the scenery of the district, as seen from the Wicks of Baiglie, an 
elevated spot on the north front of the Ochils, a little to the left 
of where Glenfarg debouches on the strath, in Sir Walter Scott’s 
Fair Maid of Perth, does no more than justice to the splendid 
panorama seen from that coign of vantage, while he quotes 
with appreciation the lines of the poet :— 
** ¢ Behold the Tiber!’ the vain Roman cried, 
Viewing the ample Tay from Baiglie’s side ; 
But where’s the Scot that would the vaunt repay, 
And hail the puny Tiber for the Tay ?” 
A drive of a few miles through a well-cultivated and beauti- 
fully wooded country, past the Bridge of Earn, and over the 
shoulder of Moncreiffe Hill, brought the party in view of the 
lights of the “ Fair City” of Perth, for darkness had fallen before 
the party, at about ten o'clock at night, drew up at the door 
of the Salutation Hotel—glad to attain its friendly shelter after 
the fatigues of a long day. Here, as on two former excursions, 
the headquarters of the Society were fixed. 
