394 LARIX EUROPE A. 



Dukes of Atlioll under whose direction they were planted, and noteworthy 

 among them are two great trees standing near one of the entrance gates 

 to Dunkeld House. These trees are the survivors of five planted by 

 Duke James in 1738; two w r ere felled in 1809 and one had been cut 

 down, twenty years before; their height in 1888 was somewhat over 

 102 feet, their girth at three feet from the ground about 17 feet, and it was 

 estimated that they contained over 530 cubic feet of timber without the 

 bark. For the illustration we are indebted to the courtesy of the author 



Fig. 100. The Parent Larches at Dunkeld. 



of " Woods, Forests and 

 " Perthshire Constitutional.' 



Estates of Perthshire " and editor of the 



The great value of Larch timber consists chiefly in its durability, 

 strength, the facility with which it may be worked, and the rapidity 

 with which it is produced ; the trees with red heart-wood are most in 

 request. Larch timber is used for all purposes of rural industry, in 

 mining operations, for railway ties, telegraph posts, scaffold poles and 

 wherever durability under exposure to the weather is required. On the 



