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is SO great that the result must one day be very profitable. 

 Later on (1868) Grigor writes of it as follows : — 



"Along the outside of this forest (Glenmore) young wood to 

 the extent of several square miles has sprung up since the 

 removal of the old forest. 



"These trees grow slowly until they reach the age of twelve, 

 which perhaps is owing to their roots not penetrating into the 

 rich sub-soil. They are of all sizes under fifty feet, some 

 crowded and others quite thin. This young forest is of the 

 usual age for bearing seed, but very few cones are to be seen ; 

 and on examining the ground around the trees few of those of 

 former years are found, and those are smaller and rounder than 

 the cones of the low, country-planted trees, as is invariably the 

 case in native forests." 



Referring to the general appearance of the forest at the same 

 time, Grigor says : — 



" When I last inspected this forest there were still a great 

 many fine trees, particularly on the borders of the lake, but none 

 notable for great dimensions except a few measuring from 9 to 

 10 feet in circumference, of little value, knotty, bushy, and 

 blemished. They stood at great distances, from 50 to 100 yards 

 apart, and evidently had not been considered of consequence 

 when the intermediate ones had been felled. In other parts 

 they were in patches on the border of the lake and on hill 

 sides : in both situations they grow rugged in figure and of 

 great girth." 



Except that the trees that were at the time middle-aged have 

 now reached maturity, this description could quite well be 

 applied to Glenmore forest at the present day. Here and there at 

 considerable distances there are large scraggy and isolated trees, 

 but all over the forest there are patches of the "young" forest, 

 often several acres in extent, where the trees are growing closely 

 together. Here they have produced long straight clean stems, 

 ■about 50 to 70 feet in height. As a general rule, where the 

 Scots pine is grown with any degree of closeness in its Highland 

 home, it produces much cleaner timber than it does in the 

 lowlands.^ 



^ In a paper recently published by Dr Miiller, Denmark, it is pointed out 

 that the Scots pine in our Highland districts closely resembles the small 

 crowned type of tree predominating in Finland and certain parts of Sweden. 

 Local carpenters state that the timber of Glenmore is very tough. 



