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cultivation of the larch in Scotland, I may refer to 

 the plantations of the Duke of Athol in Perthshire. 

 There, some of the larch trees were to be seen one 

 hundred feet high. Upon the estate of Arniston, 

 there are several larches above eighty feet high ; 

 and one, in particular, is yet growing, which con- 

 tains above one hundred and fifty cubic feet of 

 timber, and is apparently quite sound. 



There are two varieties of the larch generally 

 cultivated in Scotland, the white and the red. The 

 white is the variety which attains the greatest 

 dimensions of timber, and is the sort most gene- 

 rally cultivated, although they are both often seen 

 growing together in the same ])lantation, and that 

 by mere accident. It is said, that upon the Athol 

 estates the red larch does not contain above one- 

 third the cubic contents of timber which the white 

 larch of the same age does ; and this is observable 

 in every plantation where the two varieties are 

 found growing together. 



No timber tree at present cultivated in our woods, 

 begins to repay the expense of culture nearly so 

 soon as the larch does. It is a rapid-growing tree, 

 and is well adapted for almost every country pur- 

 pose. It generally sells at nearly double the price 

 per cubic foot that Scots fir brings, and, besides the 

 price of the wood, the bark is available for tanning 

 purposes. For some years past, the larch has been 

 subject to disease in our plantations in Scotland, 



