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some groups of larches thirty years planted, girths 37 

 inches at four feet from the ground, and contain an 

 average of 1 2 cubic feet including bark. 



A larch plantation at Finzean Castle, in Aberdeen- 

 shire, forty-eight years old, comprehends some larches 

 containing 30 cubit feet of measurable timber. 



At Glenelg, in Argyleshire, there are some very fine 

 growing larch plantations, but the wood is more cele- 

 brated for its quality than size. A few trees taken at 

 random, sixty-five years of age, girth 9 feet 1 1 inches 

 at the ground, and at 10 feet above ground 6 feet 3 

 inches ; also a very young plantation, eleven years old, 

 contains some trees 22 feet in height, and 30 inches 

 in girth including bark. 



Mr. M'Kenzie, wood manager, Murthly Castle, Perth- 

 shire, gives the following statement of an extensive 

 plantation on the estate, part aged forty-one, part 

 forty-two, and part forty-four years. Of twenty trees 

 measured, they girth respectively: four of them, 391 

 inches ; three, 38} inches; two, 371 inches; two, 

 3 6 inches ; five an average of 3 3 1 inches ; and the 

 remaining four, 34I inches. The average girth of 

 the whole trees in the plantation is computed at 37 

 inches at 10 feet from the ground, including bark. 



In another plantation on the above estate, forty -two to 

 fifty-five years old, the trees stand 40 to 70 feet apart, 

 and average 44 inches at 1 2 feet from the ground. 



Some of the largest and best trees girth 50 inches 

 at 12 feet from the ground, and measure 7 inches 

 diameter at 65 feet up. 



