FOREST TREES. 6/ 



and thrive in foils of very different qualities. It 

 luxuriates mod, however, in deep loams, and low 

 fituations, where it has fufficient fcope for its 

 roots. In (hallow foils, and expofed places, it 

 never fucceeds. In foils of a middling fort, and 

 in fituations tolerably well sheltered, its timber 

 becomes very valuable. It is a native of Sweden 

 and Norway. 



THE WALNUT. 



This is a tree not often found in the foreft, at 

 leaft in Scotland ; yet, confidering the fize it at- 

 tains to, and the ufefulnefs and value of its tim- 

 ber, we think it claims the moft particular atten- 

 tion of planters ail over the kingdom. It is ori- 

 ginally from Afia ; but is hardy, and thrives well 

 in all foils in which there is any confiderable por- 

 tion of loam, provided they be dry, and the fitua- 

 tion fomewhat flickered. In loam mixed with 

 clay fchiftus, (as at Alva), * it flourifhes remark- 

 ably, and arrives at a large fize ; in dry, brown 

 loam, on the banks of a natural lake, (as at Ot- 

 terflon, Fifefhire) ; and in clayey loam, on till, 

 (as at Panmure) ; it has reached a good timber 

 fize within a century. At Raith, (in Fifefhire), 

 on a high fituation, in ftrong loam incumbent 

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* There stands, or did lately stand, near the house at 

 Alva, the finest and largest Walnut-tree we remember of 

 having seen, either in Scotland or England. 



