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lent quality of timber, but few of them, except those 

 at Minto subsequently recorded, require more than a 

 general notice. 



Mr. Blackadder says : " I measured a large larch tree 

 at the side of the Allan water at Kippenross garden, 

 which was done with the sextant in a way similar to 

 that detailed at Dunkeld and Monzie, and the contents 

 were found to be 170 cubic feet. The tree is still in 

 vigorous growth. I measured it in 1 8 1 7 exactly in the 

 same manner, and again in 1832; it was 1 5 feet 

 higher, and had acquired about 50 cubical feet of 

 timber." 



The following trees are recorded in the Highland 



and Agricultural Society's " Transactions" for 1 861 : — 



" A tree in the garden of Kinloch, of the same growth 



as those at Dunkeld and Blair in Athole, 8 5 feet high, 



and 14 feet 8 inches girth near the ground. 



" At Kippenross garden there is a tree 108 feet high, 

 and girths 18 feet at the ground; at 27I feet from 

 the ground, where it divides into limbs, it girths 8i 

 feet ; at 54 feet from the ground it girths 7 feet ; and 

 contains, without the branches, 515 cubic feet of timber. 

 " At Dalwick, in Peeblesshire, there is a tree 90 feet 

 high, girth near the ground, 1 4 feet. This is probably 

 also one of the first that was planted in Scotland. 



" At Newliston, in the parish of Kirkliston, there is 

 a tree in a very healthy condition, which girths at the 

 eround 2 2 feet 5 inches ; at 3 feet from the ground, 

 1 3 feet I o inches ; at 6 feet from the ground. 1 2 feet 

 6 inches ; age upwards of 1 1 o years. 



