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bank of the Tay, above Bridgend. A letter, containing some 

 valuable information respecting old trees in various parts of Scot- 

 land, from my friend Mr. Bishop, Methven Castle, dated Jan. 28., 

 has come to hand ; the business part of which I shall give entire, 

 as I consider any attempt at abridgment would impair its value. 

 It commences with a description of the cedar of Lebanon, no- 

 ticed, p. 49., as standing at Gray, at the east end of the Carse 

 of Gowrie. 



" The cedar," he says, " at Gray House is the largest I have 

 seen in this country : it measured, in 1829, 15 ft. 9 in. in girth, 

 1 ft. from the ground. At the height of 2 ft., it divides into three 

 large stems ; and these are again subdivided, at several feet 

 higher, into twelve large arms, which form a very extended top. 

 Its age is unknown. There is a cedar at Hopetoun House, very 

 similar to the one at Gray ; and several at Arniston, in Had- 

 dingtonshire, some of which measured, at 3 ft. above the surface, 

 9 ft. 3 in., 8 ft. 3 in., and one, with a bole 25 ft. high, 6 ft. 9 in. 

 in circumference. The one at Dupplin Castle, Perthshire, that 

 you have so often seen, girthed 10 ft., two years ago, 3 ft* from 

 the ground. 



" Girth of Spanish chestnut, at various places, 3 ft. from the 



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The largest at Dupplin, in 1826, measured Mft. 6 in. 

 The same tree 

 One at Castle Menzies 

 One at Kinfauns Castle 

 One at Muithly Castle 

 One at Gask House 

 One at Kier House 

 One at Hopetoun House,"! ,qoo ia n 



bole 50 ft. long .J'1832 - - IS 9 



(In Mr. Dorward's report, the largest Spanish chestnut at Castle 

 Menzies now girths 19 ft. 9 in. (see above) ; and is not likely to 

 be the same tree as that measured by Mr. Bishop in 1816 : as, 

 in that case, it must have acquired, in eighteen or nineteen years, 

 an additional diameter of about 26 in.) 



" The largest Spanish chestnut said to be in Scotland grows 

 at Cairn Salloch, in Dumfriesshire ; and it contjiins 527 cubic 

 feet of wood. The bole, at 2 ft. in height, girths 26 ft. ; and it is 

 divided into four large arms, 36 ft., 35 ft., 31 ft., and 28 ft. in 

 length. 



" Larches (harix). — The largest larch at Menzie, near Crieff, 

 girths 15 ft. at 3 ft. from the ground, beino- 4 in. more than the 

 largest one at Dunkeld of the same age; both being planted in 

 1 738 : but it does not contain the same quantity of timber as that at 

 Dunkeld, which measures 350 cubic feet. The larch cut at Blair, 

 from which the late Duke of Athol's coffin was made, measured 

 106 ft. in length, and contained 8 1 cubic feet. 



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