VARIATION IN THE SCOTS FINE. 



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having the leaves "somewhat curled or rather twisted and 

 much shorter." Lambert had some time before published a 

 description of Pinus Banksiana, and Don thought his No. 4 

 nearly approached that species. 



These four forms (and we may add Don's " at least " to the 

 number) can be found in plantations all over Scotland at the 

 present day. This note merely touches the wide and interest- 

 ing subject of which it is intended at some future date to give 

 a larger and fuller account. The question is likely to be greater 

 than it was in Don's time, since we have had over a hundred 

 years of importation of seeds from the Continent, thus making 

 it probable that we have in our plantations a large number of 

 varieties and physiological races. Some of these may be of 

 great value under our conditions, while others are likely to 

 be practically useless. The matter is in need of very thorough 

 investigation, since on the selection of proper parents for the 

 units of our future pine plantations depends their success or 

 failure. 



10. Abstract View of Trees Planted by the Right 

 Honbl. Fras. 10th Earl of Moray, from 1767 to 

 1810. 



[With the Earl of Moray's permission we reprint the follow- 

 ing interesting document which was engraved on copperplate 

 early in the nineteenth century, and printed for private 

 circulation. — Hon. Ed.] 



At Darnaway, in the County of Elgin. 



