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this, immediately addressed a note to Sir James Carnegie, soli- 

 citing leave to make a personal inspection of the trees ; and also 

 permission to allude particularly to the plantations, should that 

 be necessary, for the estabUshment of so important a fact. Sir 

 James, in the most prompt and obliging manner, referred me, 

 for the information required, to his able and intelligent forester, 

 Mr. William Dorward ; who, in accompanying me to the spot 

 where these larches are, stated that, when they were ready for 

 planting out, about twelve or fourteen years ago, he had them 

 apportioned to, and planted in, two different situations in the 

 great deer park; and that the plants in one of the plots had 

 been completely annihilated by disease. The plot which I 

 visited might have originally contained from 60 to 100 trees; 

 and a considerable number of these had been infected with that 

 blistering or cancerous distemper which is so common to all the 

 larches of their age in this part of the country. Mr. Dorward 

 has, in the course of his thinning, very properly cut out most of 

 the diseased trees ; yet, an'iong those that remain, there are at 

 least three or four that evidently show that their foreign origin 

 by no means exempts them from liability to the disease to which 

 the larch trees raised from British seeds are so subject. 



In conclusion, I have only farther to say, that I am fully 

 aware of the difficulty which men in general have in divesting 

 themselves of opinions and practices to which they have long 

 adhered ; and I am also aware that there are many men who 

 can rise superior to their prejudices, and at once see anything 

 which is meritorious in any system, although this system may be 

 somewhat aside from the beaten path. Under this impression, 

 it was my intention, on commencing this paper, to give a brief 

 outline of what I consider the proper treatment of larch in all 

 its stages, from taking the seed from the cone, to the planting 

 the tree in the forest : but I fear I have already trespassed too 

 far; and I therefore propose to defer the fulfilment of this inten- 

 tion to a future opportunity." 



Brechin Nursery, Dec. 1833. 



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