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THE LARCH. 



Mr. Eobert Leishman, Eavenglass, says : " There is 

 only one larch tree on the estate of Eavenglass worth 

 special notice, growing close by the carriage road. In 

 the year 1870 I girthed it, and found it exactly 8 feet 

 in circumference at 4 feet from the ground, and it now 

 measures at the same height 9 feet. At 18 feet from 

 the ground it girths 7 feet 6 inches, and contains 

 altogether about 170 cubic feet of timber. It is from 

 80 to 85 feet in height, and was planted between 

 1790 and 1793. There are several others in the 

 grounds of the same age, equally healthy, but none of 

 them so large or well grown. There is one very fine 

 larch tree growing on the estate of Arniston, which 

 is said to be the second largest in Scotland, and also 

 that the proprietor was offered ^26 for it by a ship- 

 builder in Leith more than forty years ago." 



Measurement of Trees Growing on the Estate of 

 Ardkinglas. 



Mr. J. Eobertson, Minto House, Eoxburghshire, says : 

 "We have some splendid larches on this estate, and 



