App, II.'] LIST OF REMARKABLE TREES'. 563 



II. 



LIST OF SOME REMARKABLY LARGE TREES 

 IN SCOTLAND. 



IN the section on Soils, and in that on Kinds of Trees, 

 in the foregoing work, we have mentioned some in- 

 stances of trees growing to a large size in the soils adapt- 

 ed to their respective natures. There are, however, 

 many more much larger trees in Scotland than those 

 there taken notice of; a list of some of which we here 

 beg leave to subjoin, as a stimulus to the cultivation 

 of timber in Scotland. We may be permitted to ob- 

 serve, that if trees of the following kinds have arrived 

 to so considerable a size in this country, under a short 

 and much varied summer, and generally matured alone 

 by the hand of nature, it is a powerful earnest of what 

 may be done by good management. Further, the en- 

 ormous sizes to which the same kinds have arrived, 

 in the southern parts of England, and in the warmer 

 latitudes of Europe, and other quarters of the globe, 

 borne testimony to by various writers and historians, 

 seem no longer surprising. 



We regret that it is not at present in our power to 

 state the quality of soil in which the respective trees 

 have arrived to so considerable a size ; perhaps at some 

 future period this may be done. It is only by stu- 

 dying the quality of soil, and the situation in which 

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