160 on: planting. Fune 6. 
eight millions of trees ; and he lived several years 
after that ; and sent me word about two months after I 
saw him, that he had, in that time, planted two hundred 
thousand more. I believed no other man ever existed 
on the globe who had actually planted so many trees. 
This was the late Sir Archibald Grant of Monymutk, 
in Aberdeenfhire. Andthoughit would perhaps be 
difficult to find another person who comes near to 
this, yet the present earl Fife, the late earl Findlater, 
and many other gentlemen, have planted immense 
numbers, and are daily increasing their plantations. 
General Gordon of Fyvie.planted three millions in one 
single inclosure ; -and thereis scarcely a private gentle- 
man in Aberdeenfhire, who owns an estate of five or 
six hundred a-year, who has not planted many hun- 
dred thousand trees. Indeed all along the coast, es- 
pecially to ‘the north ot the Tay, the number of 
trees planted every year is astonifhingly great. It 
is on the west coast only that plantations are not ge- 
neral; and it is the neglect of the oAK tree, the native 
wood ofa great part of Scotland, that we have reason 
tocomplain of. The fact is, that many fine stocks 
of oak woods, in the west Highlands, are abandoned to 
cattle and fheep ; and many more are cut as copses, 
on account of the quick return for bark and forge 
_ wood, by which oak trees, as TIMBER, are become 
\ wery rare. An evil that ought certainly to be rec- 
\ tified, 
The variety of kinds of wood that are here reared 
for ornament, is very great; and almost every kind 
hrives in one part or other; but none prosper eS) 
yell, ox succeed so universally as the larch—pinge 
