490 TKANSACTIOXS AND ntOCEEDIXGS OF THE [Sess. i.vii. 



EATE of CrlRTII-lNCREASE. 



The rates yield in geiiciial rutlicr low results, although 

 a few are higher than in the oak. The very slow rate of 

 the Craigiehiill ash, 12 feet in gii-th, is accounted for by 

 ol)vious injury from the great frosts of 1879, as in 187S 

 it increased 0'70, and never more than 0'45 thereafter, 

 generally much less. T)r. Walker describes an ash at the 

 feiry over the Tay, near the Church of Logierait, well 

 known in the country as " the Ash Tree of the Loat of 

 I.ogierait," which in July 1770 was a healthy, well-shaped 

 tree, 10 feet in girth at 4 feet up, and about 70 feet high. 

 Jt is difficult to see how this can be any other than the 



