220 THE LARCH. 
measurable timber may be stated as the average produce of 
the larch in the best situations on the banks of the Find- 
horn, in the forests of Darnaway, Altyre, and Logie, after a 
growth of forty years, and where ordinary care has been 
bestowed in thinning the plantations. 
One of the finest clumps of larch ever produced in Scot- 
land was grown at Brahan Castle, on the banks of the Conon, 
in Ross-shire. This clump originally occupied about one 
imperial acre. When I last saw it, the remaining trees were 
about eighty years of age, and averaged about ninety feet in 
height. This space must have yielded, besides small thin- 
nings, at least 15,000 measurable feet of timber, a portion of 
which still remained on the ground ; the trees standing on an 
average about twenty feet apart, many of them containing 
100 cubical feet each. On the opposite side of the river 
the larches likewise advance with great vigour. In a mixed 
plantation, having a northern aspect, on the lands of Conon 
House, some trees, not exceeding forty-two years of age, were 
lately thinned out, and their cubical contents ranged from 
twenty-two to twenty-eight feet each, a size about twice that 
of the hardwood with which they were associated. 
At Ballindalloch Castle, on the banks of the Spey, there 
lately stood some large specimens of the tree which were 
planted in 1767. The following table shows the girths of four 
of these trees at the age of seventy, and their progress up to 
January 1851, after having been planted eighty-three years :— 
Girtus w Avaust 1837, GirTHS IN JANUARY 1851. 
At At At At At At At At 
1 foot. | 6 feet. | 12 feet. | 18 feet. || 1 foot. | 6 feet. | 12 feet. | 18 feet. 
vos, |S GIS FPS QUE PE P/F SEPP 
No. 2, 8 74} 71)/64/6017910;9 0/7 5,71 
No.3, .|10 6 | 8 4/7 1] 6 63/13 5/9 8 | 8 2/7 8 
No.4, .{/9 1/7 83/6 5/6 43/10 63/8 4/7 7)|7 5 
