CHAPTEK XXII. 



REMARKABLE TREES. 



Nothing connected with forestry so much delights the 

 true admirer of forest grandeur and magnificence as 

 beholding a grand old monarch that has weathered the 

 storms of some hundred winters, and which audibly 

 speaks in its own language when those who planted it 

 lie in peaceful ashes beneath its spreading boughs. 



The Dunkeld larches (see our illustration) are gene- 

 rally considered the oldest, noblest, and most interesting 

 in Great Britain. The two oldest and largest, variously 

 stated as planted in 1736 and 1738, according to 

 different accounts, are growing in the old flower-garden 

 (now pleasure-ground) near the venerable Cathedral, 

 and though, from their extreme height, the top branches 

 periodically show signs of decay, they yet again and 

 again revive, and at the present day are so healthy and 

 growing, that to all appearance they may outlive the 

 youngest person. The largest in 1 8 3 i was estimated 

 to contain 350 cubic feet of timber, and now it is 

 estimated to contain altogether of measurable timber 

 about 480 cubic feet, and the other tree about 50 feet 

 less. In 1 83 1 the largest one, at four feet from the 



