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height, girth i o feet, and 150 years old ; the man 

 who planted the tree died at 105 years of age." 



At Forglen House, parish of Forglen, there are some 

 excellent larches about 1 20 years old, which contain over 

 250 cubic feet. There is here also a very remarkable 

 variety of the larch, with a tall stem, clustered branches, 

 a great quantity of cones, and outline very picturesque. 

 It is a very distinct variety, locally called the " Ame- 

 rican larch," probably Pinus microcarpa nana. 



At Darnaway, in Morayshire, there are some notable 

 larches, some of which the Scottish Arboricultural 

 excursion party, in August last, took notice of. Two 

 trees, planted in 1790, are over 100 feet in height; 

 one of them measures 8 feet 91 inches at i foot 

 from the ground, and 7 feet at 5 feet up, and contains 

 102 cubic feet of timber. The other girths 9 feet 

 9I inches at i foot up, and 8 feet 61 inches at 

 5 feet from the ground, with 190 cubic feet of 

 timber. 



At St. John's Mead there is also a magnificent larch, 

 already historical ; it is over 100 feet high, girths 1 2 feet 

 2 inches at I foot up, and 9 feet 4 inches 5 feet up, 

 and contains 240 cubic feet of timber. Others also 

 of large dimensions, and 120 feet in height, are here 

 to be met with, all sound trees, healthy, and of excel- 

 lent quality of timber. 



At Altyre, in Morayshire, there is, besides the very 

 extensive area of splendid larch and fir plantations, 

 some notable larch trees, which, from the time I saw 

 them, fourteen years ago, have made great progress in 



