488 TIJAXSACTIONS AND niOCEEDIXGS OF THE [Sicss. i.vii. 



Number above 15 feel in girth at "> feet up. 



15 to 16 feet, f> 



16 „ 17 ., 2 



17 „ IS 1 



18 ,, 19 -1 



19 „ 20 1 



Above 20 ,, 1 



Total, .14 



AljovL- 20 feet in giitli at 1 foot up, 16 



The Yair tree, perhaps the largest thriving ash in Scot- 

 land, is difficult to measure, as the ground on which it 

 stands is fully 4 feet' higher on the one side than the other. 

 On the 21st June 1893, measuring from the lower side, I 

 found the girth to be 21 feet 6 inches at 5 feet up, 18 feet 

 2 inches at 6 feet, and 17 feet 10 inches at 8 feet. Tlie 

 circumference of the foliage, which was somewhat thin but 

 healthy, was nearly 300 feet. 



The number of remarkable ashes in a flourishing con- 

 dition is not great, but there is good evidence that the 

 species has produced in the past several trees of the largest 

 size of which" we have any record in Scotland. Besides 

 two, which are equalled in the present day, — -one at 

 Carnock, Stirlingshire, recorded by Strutt in 1825 as being 

 31 feet in girth at the ground, 19 feet 3 inches at 5 feet, 

 and 21 feet 6 inches at 9 feet; the other on Inch Merrin, 

 Loch Lomond, recorded by Dr. Walker in 1784, as 21 feet 

 8 inches at 4 feet, — Dr. Walker mentions three that greatly 

 (exceeded these dimensions, (1) a second specimen on Inch 

 Merrin, 28 feet 5 inches at 5 feet; (2) the celebrated ash 

 at Kilmalie, Inverness-shire, burnt to the ground by the 

 soldiery in 1746, the circuit of which was still traceable 

 in the same year, the remains being from several inches 

 to a foot high all round, measuring 58 feet, with cross 

 diameters of 2 1 and 1 7 feet, and described by one who 

 remembered it before its destruction as dividing into three 

 great arms at a height of 8 feet ; (3) the great ash at 

 Bonhill Place, Dumbartonshire, vestiges of which still 

 remain, described l)y Dr. Walker in 1784 as girthing 

 34 feet 1 inch at 4 feet, 21 feet 3 inches at 8 feet, and 

 22 feet 9 inches at 12 feet, where it divided into three 

 arms (not original, Ijut the result of pollarding), 12, 11, 

 and 10 feet in yirth ; a room in the trunk was 9 feet 1. incli 



