DARNAWAY FOREST. 9 



(2) 5 acres for transplanted seedlings of one and two years 

 of age. 



At the present time the general working programme for the 

 forest is somewhat as follows, say for 1 923-1 924 : — 



(i) The timber sold and in the process of felling — Section 4, 

 3rd September 1923. 



(2) The timber to be sold — Section 66, Alves (20 acres), to be 



followed by Sections 5, 27, 28, and so on in later years. 



(3) The timber to be sold - Old Scots pine, Section 39, about 



a thousand trees. 



(4) The timber to be thinned — Section 6, 161 acres, to be 



followed by Sections 12, 13, 14, and so on. 



(5) The timber to be planted — Section 54, 125 acres. 



(6) Estimated output from forestry nursery for year 1923 



of 2-year i-year seedlings; almost entirely conifers. 



400,000 for Elgin. 

 100,000 for East Perthshire. 

 10,000 for West Perthshire. 

 Total 510,000, or so. 



Much of the information recorded above, and much of out- 

 standing interest in connection with arboriculture in the county 

 of Elgin and surrounding districts, is derived from the work by 

 the late Mr John Grigor, Arboricultu7'e, o?- a Practical Treatise 

 on Raising a7td Managing Forest Trees, published in Edinburgh, 

 1868. 



The following account of Mr Grigor, which was furnished me 

 by his fellow townsman, my late friend Mr Anderson, bookseller, 

 Forres, would not, I think, be out of place in this paper : — " John 

 Grigor, belonging to Elgin, came to Forres prior to 1S28 and 

 started a nursery for trees, especially Scots pine. In 1828, the 

 dry year, he was burnt out; in 1829, the year of the flood, he 

 was drowned out ; nothing daunted, with the assistance of his 

 brother, he again set to work and established what was then 

 considered the best nursery in Scotland ; he feued lands from the 

 town adjoining his house — the Beeches — and afterwards, for 

 experimental purposes, leased a farm on the high ground of the 

 Califer, removing the young trees to the more exposed situation, 

 which was of great importance to the quality, especially of the 

 pines." His volume on arboriculture was published in 1868. By 



