24 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



handsome enclosures with very regular planting," near the 

 Endrick ; Rossdhu, Luss (1724), "regular planting"; Wishaw 

 House (about 1723), "with a vast planting, most of them all 

 come to perfection in the planter's own time '" ; Raith, Bothwell 

 (same writer), "a pritty large platt of firrs as a vistoe to the 

 house, just opposite to the mouth of the great avenue " ; Erskine 

 (about 1725), "abundance of excellent stately barren planting 

 with pleasant woods"; Walkinshaw (same writer), "excellent 

 regular avenues of barren timber"; PoUok (1696 to 17 10), 

 " excellently well planted, with a great deal of regular and 

 beautiful planting" (Crawford's History of Renfreii'shire, 17 10); 

 Shire of Edinburgh (about 1647), "moderately planted with 

 trees, especially about the noblemen's castles and gentlemen's 

 houses"; Bowhill, Selkirkshire (1722), "parks and planting very 

 pleasant"; Carrick (1683 to 1722), "every gentleman has by 

 his house both wood and water, orchards, and parks," and many 

 places in the district are named as planted ; Adamtoun, Kyle 

 (1723), "a great dale of planting"; Ochiltree (1723), "a vast 

 dale of young barren timber"; Underwood, Barnweill (1723 to 

 1732), "abundance of very handsome young planting of all 

 sorts'"; Alinigaff (about 1726), " Palgown surrounded with pretty 

 groves of Scots Pine, Black Cherries, and other kinds of 

 planting, which make a fine umbello to the house"; and 

 Lochurr (1684 to 1692), "planting of Sauch or Willow trees 

 about it " (17). 



It should be remarked that the dates named are those of the 

 writings quoted from, and consequently are later than the actual 

 planting of the trees which they record. 



Perthshire, so rich in woodlands, has in many places planted 

 trees dating from the earliest. In addition to those already 

 mentioned, there are Lawers ; Murthly Castle (where two old 

 Spanish Chestnuts are "supposed to have been amongst the 

 original trees brought into this country by the monks ") ; 

 Dunsinane; Scone (where are Sycamores planted by Queen 

 Mary and James VI.); Moncrieffe (Horse Chestnut, supposed 

 to have been planted about 1679) ^ Kilgraston ; Dupplin (Silver 

 Firs, amongst the first planted in Scotland) ; Blair Drummond ; 

 and Drummond Castle (10). 



Sir John Clerk of Penicuik (Midlothian) (1676-1755) found 

 the estate in his earlier years little more than a bare upland 

 waste. "In 1703," he writes, "I . . . fell exceedingly 



