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season, and the growth compared with contiguous plants 

 growing in unmanured soil. So far as the Thuya seedlings 

 were concerned the rate of 2 oz. to the sq. yard is evidently 

 too strong, as manures i, 4 and 6 completely killed the plants, 

 and no appreciable advantage was perceivable from the use of 

 the others, so that it is probable that plants of this age are too 

 young to benefit by such applications. 



The 2-year seedling Japanese larch, on the other hand, were 

 very much improved by Nos. i, 3 and 4, but Nos. 5 and 7 were 

 harmful in such quantity, as the foliage turned red and the 

 plants did not progress, while No. 6 killed them completely. 

 All through the growing season the plot treated with No. 2 

 showed slightly stronger in the foliage than the contiguous 

 unmanured plot. The treatment with No. 3 showed more 

 growth and heavier foliage ; No. 4 was better than No. 3 ; 

 but No. I was far and away the best, fine strong growth and 

 heavy foliage resulting from this application. 



It was unfortunate that alternative sowings at the rate of 

 I oz. and 4 oz. to the sq. yard were not tried, but space 

 and plants did not admit of this extension. Incomplete as the 

 experiment has been, it has quite satisfied the writer that (so far 

 as his soil is concerned) the application of No. i or No. 4 to 

 2-year seedling larch in lines is well worth while. 



The approximate cost of the manures would be only some- 

 thing between i6s. and 20s, per cwt. for No. i, and between 13s. 

 and i6s. for No. 4. 



Sir Kenneth Mackenzie. 



Particulars of Specimen of Larix Europaea felled at 

 Drummond Hill, Kenmore, ist April 1924. 



( With Plate.) 



When this large specimen was felled by Messrs M'Ainsh it 

 showed only slight traces of dryness in patches at the root. It 

 is said to have been planted by the third Earl of Breadalbane 

 about 1770, at an altitude of 400 feet on the southern slope 

 of Drummond Hill, a little to the east of Taymouth Castle, 

 Perthshire. It grew in a mixture of beech, oak, larch, and 

 spruce, on a loamy soil overlying mica-schist. 



Writing of the larch in Scotland in Elwes and Henry's famous 



