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cultivated, cleared of large stones and partially cleaned. As 

 noted above, over 80,000 plants were taken from the nursery 

 and planted out. This season the following seedlings were 

 purchased and have been lined out : 90,000 larch, 200,000 

 Scots pine, 200,000 spruce, 20,000 Sitka spruce, 10,000 Douglas 

 fir, and 10,000 silver fir. They are looking fairly well. In 

 addition, seed of the following species has been bought and 

 sown : larch (native and Tyrolese), Scots pine, spruce, Sitka 

 spruce, Douglas fir, silver fir, Tsiiga Mertensiana {Albertiana), 

 Abies grandis, Thuja gigantea, Sequoia giganfea, and Cupressus 

 macrocarpa. The germination, with the exception of the native 

 larch, is fair. 



At the request of the West of Scotland Agricultural College 

 four experimental plots, each divided into six sections containing 

 different species, have been set apart and treated with different 

 artificial manures. The object is to test the effect of these upon 

 the growth of the plants. 



Durability of Highland Scots Fir. 



A correspondent writes to The Scotsman as follows : — "At the 

 east end of Kingussie there is being demolished an interesting 

 relic of the past. Waterloo House, erected in the year of 

 the memorable battle, recalls many memories, but nothing 

 does it bring at the present moment more prominently before 

 the public than the extraordinary value and endurance of the 

 primeval forests of Great Britain. In this erection no wood 

 was used but Glenfeshie Scots fir, squared with the axe, 

 and it is worthy of note that even now, after the lapse of 

 practically a hundred years, not only the rafters but the sarking 

 even is in a substantial state of preservation. The core or 

 centre of each scantling is perfectly sound, and almost as hard 

 as ebony. Some landowners in the Highlands, such as the 

 late Earl of Seafield, who, through his commissioner, the Hon. 

 T. C. Bruce, planted many millions of Scots fir and spruce all 

 over his Strathspey estates, have been far-seeing in this respect, 

 with the result that in a few years an abundant and lucrative 

 asset will be available. In the extensive glens in the Abernethy 

 forests old timber of a remarkable age existed, and from these 

 trees seedlings were grown which produced the valuable forests 

 now in full growth. 



