98 THE LARCH. 



No. 12 is remarkable only on account of the com- 

 parative failure of the Scotch pine and larch, and com- 

 plete success of the silver fir, which latter had been 

 planted about twenty years after the original crop. 

 The exposure is severe and soil cold and damp — con- 

 ditions congenial to the silver fir, but adverse to the 

 other trees. 



'No. 1 3 is worthy of special notice on account of the 

 spruce confining the hardwoods and preventing them 

 from branching, and the more they are thinned out 

 they only spread their branches the farther and extend 

 the damage wider. The spruces themselves are rough 

 and superabundantly clothed with branches, while the 

 state of the hardwoods is the reverse, which shows 

 they should never be grown among spruce, and seldom 

 amongst coniferae of any kind. 



]S"o. 14 is a mixed hardwood plantation in a deep 

 ravine. It is not mixed with pines or firs of any sort, 

 and is exceedingly healthy. The ash and elm are of 

 about equal value, namely 2s. each. This portion of 

 hardwood plantation might well be taken as a model 

 after wliich to grow hardwood successfully. 



Xo. 16. This is a ravine with a narrow portion of 

 table-land planted at top, which shows very forcibly 

 how well larch delights in freedom and air, for the trees 

 on the top are much superior in every respect to those 

 below m the glen. It is not, however, to be overlooked 

 that this ravine, like many others, is rather damp for 

 larch ; even the sloping banks are too wet and cold — a 



