68 transactions of royal scottish arboricultural society. 



Pull Woods. 

 From the landing-stage at Bowness the members were 

 conveyed in motor launches up Lake Windermere to Pull 

 Woods, where they were met by Mr Irving, forester to Sir 

 Kenneth Crossley. A group of magnificent young woods 

 was seen here. In the first, planted in 191 1 with a mixture of 

 European and Japanese larches at 4 ft., the Japanese were 

 doing so much better than the European that it was expected 

 that the plantation would ultimately consist of pure Japanese. 

 The forest floor was very clean, one thinning had been made 

 and every tree cleaned of branches up to about 10 ft.; no 

 canker was observed and the whole wood had a very fine 

 appearance, suggesting an age of about 20 yrs. instead of 

 only 12. From this the party next visited a plantation 

 of pure Douglas, planted in 1909, 6 ft. apart, which had 

 been thinned once and was in splendid condition, but perhaps 

 the best of all was the next plantation, which consisted of 

 pure European larch planted in 1907, 4 ft. apart. Here the 

 second thinning had just been made; there was practically no 

 canker or aphis and the trees were of good form and in fine 

 condition, a good proportion of them being over 30 ft. in height. 

 The opinion was expressed that it would probably be difficult 

 to find woods to beat these three anywhere in the country. 



Wray Castle. 

 After lunch the party saw round the grounds of Wray Castle 

 belonging to Mr Gregory, where were seen some fine specimen 

 ornamental trees, including a Sequoia gigantea and 5. sempervire?is 

 of 14 ft. 2 ins. and 13 ft. 10 ins. girths, respectively, and of 

 corresponding height. No record of their age could be 

 obtained, but the Castle was built in 1840 and they would 

 probably be planted at or shortly after that date. There was 

 also a fine specimen of Ginkgo biloha, the Chinese maiden-hair 

 tree, said by some of the party to be a better specimen than 

 that at Kew; two beautiful cedars, C. atla?itica and C. Libani ; 

 a huge Araucaria imbricata ; a very' fine Platanus orientalis ; 

 and a fine specimen of the somewhat rare Tilia petiolaris (the 

 American or pendulous lime) — all of great size and beauty. 



Belle Isle. 

 The party was now taken over by Mr Orr, who led along 

 the edge of the lake through the Belle Isle estate belonging 



