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In the Scone woods, and grown as ordinary plantation trees, 
are many fine samples of the Douglas and other firs introduced 
to Britain within the past sixty years; and in a mixed 
plantation, forty-one years of age, occupying a very exposed 
site in the district, the following trees occur. These measure- 
ments were also taken by Mr Bayne in the autumn of 1891, and 
it will be noticed how much the Menzies’ fir has outstripped all 
the other trees. There is no Douglas fir in this plantation. 
CoNIFERS IN SCONE Woops. 
Botanical Name. Height. a a 
ft. ins, ft. ins. 
Abies Menziesti (1), : 60) .5 Gen 
a Pe (2); 5 : 61 70 6. 8} 
», Nordmanniana, . : 49 6 4 8 
5, ePimsapo, =". : : 3/2780 oer 
Lariz europea, . : : 5G LS Br WO 
Pinus austriaca, . - : 36 610 4 0 
», Cembra, . : - 39 «(0 2 4% 
Shari *. - : HOMO Ba) 
3). SYlvestris, « : 3 48 0 3. 8 
Two of the finest of the older trees in the Scone woods are 
a larch 97 feet 3 inches in height, with a girth of 8 feet 1 inch 
at 5 feet up, and a Scots fir, 74 feet 3 inches high, and 7 feet 
10 inches in girth at the same distance from the ground. 
With Lord Stormont and Mr Dunn making the pace, the 
walk through the woods, in the warmth of the day, was felt 
by many of the members to be rather fatiguing; and a quarter 
of an hour's rest, waiting until the last of the stragglers had 
appeared, was by no means unacceptable. Lord Stormont 
having been thanked for his great courtesy, the drive was 
resumed through a fine country rich in woodlands, attractive 
in its scenery, and waving with bounteous crops of wheat and 
corn. The company had a peep, in passing, at the fine new 
house of Newmiln, which is being built in this locality for 
Sir John Millais, R.A., to take the place of the one that was 
recently burned; and with Dunsinane Hill and Birnam Wood 
in sight, there was no lack of subjects of conversation to 
enliven the journey. At the village of Guildtown, a raid was 
made on the supplies of the small hostelry there by the tired 
and thirsty foresters, which will, no doubt, form a subject of 
conversation at many a cottage fireside in the long winter 
months, and pass into one of the wondrous legends of the place. 
