2 2 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



barren as fruit bearing, the whole disposed in fair order" 

 (Sibbald's Scotia Il/ustraia, 16S4). 



A further example of a far advanced place in respect of 

 planting was Bargaly, Kirkcudbrightshire, where, under its laird, 

 Andrew Heron, great progress had been made before the end of 

 the seventeenth century. About 1722, it was described as being 

 all covered with woods . . . the grounds next Heron's 

 house being all divided and adorned with large thickets of fir 

 and other planting (17). Walker included in his book examples 

 of different kinds of early planted and well-developed trees from 

 Bargaly (28). 



Some of the trees in use for seventeenth century planting 

 are made known by the plunder carried off from Inveraray to 

 Blair AthoU in 1684-1685, when the Murrays paid a visit to 

 the Campbells, in accordance with another custom of the times. 

 The orchard enclosures and shrubberies at Inveraray were 

 raided, and some thousands of young trees lifted and carried 

 off as booty. The Duke of AthoU's Chronicles of the Atholl 

 Fa?nily (vol. i., p. 265)^ give a list (with values) of the trees, 

 and we find the kinds named are Silver and Spanish Fir, 

 Pinaster, Pine, Yew, Holland trees (Holly), Beech, Lime, 

 Buckthorn, Black and White Poplar, Chestnut, Horse Chestnut, 

 Walnut, Fir, Ash, Plane, Elm, Pear, Apple, Plum, and Cherry. 

 The compensation claim made for the lot was settled for 

 ^1^,000 Scots = ;^io83, 6s. 8d. sterling. 



Towards the end of the seventeenth century more detailed 

 information regarding planting becomes available. About that 

 time the Earl of Panmure planted what are called endless Beech 

 avenues at Panmure (13), and some of the trees of the same 

 kind in the town avenue at Inveraray may have been planted 

 between 1674 and 1685. At Kinnaird the Beech is definitely 

 dated as 1693, and an avenue of this tree was planted at Biodie 

 Castle between 1650 and 1680. Oak, Elm, and Lime are also 

 recorded for this period at the last-named place. At Kilcoy 

 groups of Beeches, and also Ash trees and some Oaks and Elms 

 are said to date from about 1685. Silver Firs were planted at 

 Drumlanrig from 1650 to 1680, and at Drummond Castle about 

 1688 (11). 



The dates named by authorities are, not infrequently, of a 

 conjectural character, but nothing that seems improbable has 



'Quoted in Elwes and Henry's Trees of Great Britain and Ireland {1^. 5S7). 



