2IO TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



together with the fasciculated and abnormal branching of many 

 trees point to the presence of the parasite even although the 

 fruits (perithecia) may not be found. 



The Torvald Wood has just been heavily thinned for pitwood, 

 and I find a large proportion of the trees are affected in the 

 manner indicated, and on many the fruits of the parasite are to 

 be found. 



It might be well for foresters to keep on the outlook for this 

 disease, since it is possible that some of the damage formerly 

 attributed to the ordinary pine blister {Periderniium pint corticola) 

 may be due to this Cucurbitaria pithy ophila. 



Charles M'Intosh. 



Timber Growing for Profit. 



If all landowners went in for timber growing with the same 

 method and enthusiasm as they give to the raising of agricultural 

 crops, there is no reason why it should not become equally if 

 not more profitable. The great trouble is, they do not or will 

 not regard trees as a crop, but rather look upon them as 

 useful or ornamental objects. The rule is to go into the wood 

 and cut down the tree most suitable for the purpose in hand 

 regardless of the effect that the removal of the said tree may 

 have on its neighbours. This is a big question and would 

 require a lengthy article itself. 



On this estate a piece of waste land of about loo acres was 

 taken in hand in the year 1907, for the purpose of forming a 

 plantation. The ground was formerly covered with a mass of 

 heather, rough grasses and rushes with a few scraggy old 

 conifers. The old trees were cut and removed, heather and 

 grass burnt over, the whole area drained and fenced, and 3 feet 

 wire-netting erected. In the spring a quantity of 2-year 2-year 

 Scots pine was purchased from a public nursery and planted out. 

 These proved a failure. In the autumn of that year an estate 

 nursery was made and stocked with 2-year seedlings of the 

 various kinds of conifers. A fresh start was made with the 

 planting of the area in question by putting in four rows of trees 

 as a wind-break all round the margin, in the following order : — 

 First row larch, second row sycamore, third row larch, fourth 

 row beech. The altitude runs from 600 feet above sea-level at 

 the lowest point, up to 950 feet at the top of the ridge, and has a 



