go TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
but chiefly forming a block at the southern extremity of Lodge 
Inclosure. The coppice consists chiefly of ash. 
(c) Mew Plantations. 
These are situated in— 
Acres. 
Glenbervie, : : - 14 
Willow’s Green, ; : : 17 
Abbott’s Wood, : , ; 16 
Lodge Inclosure, 14 
Total, v 2 61 
These plantations have been formed since the year 1886, on 
areas where third-class oak crops had been removed, or where 
coppice has been cut, as in Lodge Inclosure. They are stocked 
with larch, Scots pine, Corsican pine, spruce, silver fir, and 
Douglas fir. 
4. INJURIES TO WHICH THE WOODS ARE EXPOSED. 
(a) Znsects—An almost annual visitation of the oak-leaf roller 
moth (Zotrix viridana) occurs, which causes more or less 
damage. The insect is probably associated with the winter 
moth (Cheimatobia brumata). Of beetles which attack conifers, 
nothing has been noted so far. 
(b) Fungz—Young plantations of larch are attacked by 
Peziza Wailkommit, as almost everywhere in the south of 
England. 
(c) Ground Game.—Some years ago the woods were overrun 
by rabbits. Of late years attempts have been made to keep 
them down; still, the number is sufficiently large to necessitate 
fencing with wire netting, wherever it is proposed to plant. 
It may be noted that where ground game has been effectually 
kept down, as in Straits Inclosure, natural regeneration of oak 
has commenced to appear, whereas such a phenomenon is 
extremely rare in other parts of the woods. An effort should 
now be made to exterminate the rabbits, as laid down in the 
Act of Parliament quoted above. 
(d) Forest Fires have not occurred up to date, but care will 
have to be taken in the future to guard against them, in the 
same degree as the area under conifers increases. 
(e) #rosts.—Late frosts occur in the depressions, and are liable 
