U4 TREE-PLANTING. 



female flowers in April and May, and when arrayed 

 in its full dress of leaves, presents a very engaging 

 appearance. 



In the seventh edition of " Miller's Dictionary," 

 published in 1759, it is stated that the larch had 

 become plentiful in England, being commonly found 

 in most English nurseries, and that great numbers 

 had been planted, with the singular result, as it then 

 appeared, that the trees established in the worst soils 

 and situations had turned out the best. From this 

 time the nature of the tree became better known, and 

 it was seen that, fertile plains were not calculated for 

 its full development, and that it did best upon an 

 elevated open subsoil, from whence moisture- was 

 easily discharged, and where it could receive the 

 benefits of a clear and open atmosphere. 



It was thus planted in England about a hundred 

 years before the tree was introduced into Scotland^ 

 where it succeeds better on the whole than in England, 

 except in elevated situations and in suitable soils. It 

 is a native of the Alps of France and Switzerland, of 

 the Apennines in Italy, and is indigenous in all the 

 rocky and elevated situations in the Tyrol, and in 

 mountain districts in Germany. . 



The Transactions of the Highland Society give an 

 account of the first larches which were planted by the 

 late Duke of Athol's trustees, which were brought 

 from London by Mr. Menzies of Migeny, in 1/38. 

 Five plants were left at Dunkeld, and eleven at Blair 

 Athole, presents to the Duke of Athole. The five 

 were planted in the lawn at Dunkeld in alluvial 

 gravelly soil, composed in a great measure of round 

 stones, in a sheltered situation, elevated forty feet 



