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of clear cutting, as compared with tlie raising of a two-storied 

 crop by underplanting, and other matters. 



The plantation next visited was the Todlawhill Wood, which 

 is about 200 acres in extent. It consists of a thriving young 

 crop of Scotsjpine planted in succession to a former crop of the 

 same species, which had been removed between the years 1886 

 and 1897, and yielded timber of high quality. The present 

 crop bids fair to equal its predecessor in that respect. 



The party next examined the creosoting plant, the sawmills, 

 nurseries, and gardens. A fine specimen of the narrow-leaved 

 ash {Fraxtnus excelsior var. angustifolia variegafa) attracted 

 considerable attention. It was 38 feet high and was evidently a 

 graft on the common ash. It was noticed that certain branches 

 of the graft produced leaves and buds like those of the common 

 form. The pinetum was found to be very interesting, and 

 several of the finer trees were measured. The most free 

 growing among them were the Western American conifers. 

 Attention was directed to an old larch tree, which had been 

 planted in the year 1750, just twelve years after the planting of 

 the first larch trees at Dunkeld by the Duke of Atholl. It was 

 70 feet high, 12 feet in girth at breast-height, and was computed 

 by Mr Bell to contain 264 cubic feet (quarter girth) of timber. 

 Another very notable tree was a Spanish chestnut, which was a 

 particularly fine specimen of the species as grown so far north ; 

 it was 80 feet in height, and girthed 14 ft. 8 ins. at breast-height. 



The party were entertained to lunch by Sir George Aber- 

 cromby on the lawn at Forglen House. Mr Sydney Gammell, 

 in proposing Sir George's health, took occasion to express the 

 thanks of those present for the privilege they had enjoyed in 

 visiting so well-wooded and beautiful an estate as Forglen. 



Hatton. 



The party next visited the extensively wooded policies of 

 Hatton Castle, where they at once proceeded to carry out the 

 inspection programme which had been prepared for them by 

 Mr Barron, the venerable forester of the estate, who is the 

 second, if not the third, of his family in lineal descent to fill the 

 important office of head forester at Hatton. He and his father or 

 grandfather had planted nearly all the trees now growing there. 



The first wood visited was Upper Greystone. The stock 

 consisted wholly of spruce, about 25 to 30 years old, and was very 



