212 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
When the percentage lies between the limits stated, it is 
necessary to compensate for its presence by injecting into the 
timber a proportionately greater quantity of the oil—7Zvhe 
Timber News and Saw-mill Engineer, September 16, 1905. 
A GIGANTIC CEDAR OF LEBANON. 
Mr Devenish had, in September 1900, growing on his lawn 
at Little Durnford, Salisbury, a cedar of Lebanon measuring 
19 ft. 9 ins. in girth. This is much larger than any reported on 
at the Conifer Conference, 1891, or by the Board of Agriculture 
in 1903.—Hon. ED. 
TREES AT AUCHINCRUIVE, AYRSHIRE. 
Auchincruive was one of the estates visited by the Society 
on the occasion of their Excursion to South Ayrshire in 1901; 
but owing to want of time, and to unfavourable weather, one 
or two only of the larger and rarer of the trees there, which 
are so carefully preserved by the proprietor, R. A. Oswald, Esq., 
were seen by the party. A few particulars regarding the dimen- 
sions of some of them may therefore be of interest. 
The Scots pine, Spanish chestnut, and beech given in the list 
form part of what are believed to be the remaining trees 
(60 to 80 in number) of what has been described as “the 
first attempt at systematic planting for the production of timber 
in Ayrshire . . . in the valley of the Ayr and the valley of the 
Doon.” The Spanish chestnuts in particular are of great size, 
their contents ranging from 300 to 450 cubic feet, quarter-girth 
measurement, per tree. Their fruits ripen in average years. 
The measurements given in the following Table were, with the 
exception of those initialed “G. L.,” made by Messrs Renwick 
and Mackay, of the Natural History Society of Glasgow, on 25th 
September 1905. G. LEVEN, 
Auchincruive. 
