PLANTING. 6 1 



says the former were stolen from the carrier, who 

 brought a quantity of larch for the Duke of Athole a 

 few years after the now celebrated ones at Dunkeld 

 and Blair- Athole were planted. 



Between 1740 and 1750 James, second Duke of 

 Athole, planted at Dunkeld 350 larches, and during 

 the same period he planted at Blair 873 larches. In 

 1759, His Grace planted 700 larches in one planta- 

 tion at Dunkeld, mixed with other trees — the last His 

 Grace planted, having died in 1764. In 1768 John, 

 third Duke of Athole, planted three acres all of larch 

 at Craigvinian, near Dunkeld, at an altitude of from 

 500 to 600 feet, and finished the planting of 400 

 Scotch acres before his death in 1774. His Grace 

 raised plants yearly to the number of 1000 from 

 cones grown upon the trees planted by his ancestors, 

 and the remainder of the plants he purchased from nur- 

 serymen at sixpence each, and had great difficulty in 

 procuring them even at that price. John, fourth Duke 

 of Athole, planted, between 1774 and 1815, 1,108,998 

 larch trees upon 8071 Scotch acres. 



In 1829 the extent of the whole of the plantations 

 amounted to 13,378 Scotch acres, of which 8604 

 were of larch alone. 



On John the fourth Duke's accession in 1774, the 

 total number of acres planted was about 1000 Scotch 

 acres, consequently he planted about 12,378 Scotch 

 acres, or 15,473 English statute acres. Allowing 

 2000 plants to each Scotch acre, it makes the 

 number of trees 24,756,000, but in reality consider- 



