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circumstances ; hence the many false conclusions. It 

 is only by present observation of what is an existent 

 crop upon the ground that a true knowledge of its value 

 is ascertained. 



Mr. J. Stewart, Inveraray, says : " As a commercial 

 product, I have no hesitation in saying that a larch 

 plantation of any given number of acres will, at the 

 end of say from fifty to sixty years, be worth double 

 the value that the same number of acres of any of the 

 other coniferous tribe will be worth. That is to say, 

 if due care is observed and taken that the larch is 

 planted in suitable soil and situation. 



" I have planted a considerable extent of larch on this 

 estate since 1848, and the plantations are all thriving 

 very well. From the plantings of 1 849 and 1 8 5 o I now 

 get two lengths of 9 -inch and i o-inch sleeper blocks. 



"I may mention a young plantation of about 120 

 acres, planted in the spring of 1873, in irregular 

 clumps of larch and Scotch fir. In the low and shel- 

 tered parts of this plantation some of the larch trees 

 are now 25 feet high, and thriving remarkably well." 



Mr. James Crabbe, Glamis Castle, says : " In a plan- 

 tation here of 3 i 5 acres, there are growing on one side 

 of a ravine near the village of Glamis, on the space of 

 I acre 3 roods, among a few beech trees, fifty-four 

 larches from no to 126 feet high, 112 years old, 

 and on an average each tree contains 105 cubic feet 

 of timber, which at the present price (is. 6d. per foot) 

 are worth £y, 17s. 6d. each, equal to ;^42 5, 5s. The 

 largest tree in the group girths, at five feet from the 



