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question, therefore, whether they should not be removed, 

 bearing in mind the risk there might be of exposing the 

 giant more freely to the assaults of the wind, a danger 

 which could probably be avoided by removing the 

 secondary trees gradually, 



III. The Spanish Chestnut {Castanca vcsca). 



According to Mr, Hutchison's tables the Spanish 

 chestnut comes next to the oak in productiveness of 

 large trees in Scotland, at least as far as girth measure- 

 ment goes. It is necessary, however, to deduct two from 

 the eighteen which figure in his list as above 17 feet in 

 girth at 5 feet, because they measure less than 17 feet 

 lower down, and in four others the same fault may be 

 suspected, although the data are insufficient to prove it, 

 I have placed these six, therefore, in a separate list, and 

 have added to the first list two others which are entitled 

 to a place in it. 



Spanish chestnuts, 17 feet in girth and upwards at o 

 feet up, or at the probable narrowest point. Chiefly from 

 Mr, Hutchison's Table of IIG Scottish specimens (Trans. 

 H. and Agr, Soc. Scot,, 1879). 



