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also fine large Scotch firs in many places of Inver- 

 ness and Ross-shires, on high exposed situations. 



There is on the estate of Tolly more Park, Ireland, 

 the beautiful seat of Earl Roden, according to a va- 

 luation made in 1826, nearly L.100,000 worth of grow- 

 ing wood, and with the exception of a very few trees, 

 the whole do not exceed sixty years growth ; while 

 the ground these trees occupy could hardly be turned, 

 with advantage, to any other purpose ; many of the 

 larch firs on that estate have been cut away as thin- 

 nings to improve those to remain, and have brought 

 L.5 and upwards ; several clusters of these firs con- 

 tain upwards of 1000 trees on an acre, and at an 

 average value, will sell for L.3 per tree ; some silver 

 firs planted at the same time, now contain 140 solid 

 feet, and worth L.10 per tree ; many of these trees 

 grow in a very elevated and exposed situation. 



The noble proprietor is still going on enclosing 

 and planting, and has, within these two years, most 

 judiciously planted upwards of 300 acres of the waste 

 lands on his estate. The profits his lordship is de- 

 riving from his plantations, though only cutting for 

 improvement, hold out the most cheering prospects, 

 and should bestir other proprietors to go and do like- 

 wise. 



It is astonishing that proprietors should be so 

 backward to their own interests, by not taking greater 

 care of the plantations already on their estates, and 

 planting more of their waste lands, when to a cer- 

 tainty they hold out such inducements to profit. So 

 attentive were our ancestors to insure a proper sup- 

 ply of timber, that the proprietors of woods were 

 compelled by the statute of the 31st of Henry the 

 VIII. to leave twelve of the best standrils on every 



