818 SYLVA FLORIFERA. [ADDEND. 



from the ground, it girthed seventeen feet eight 

 inches; at three feet, twelve feet seven inches; 

 at ten feet, ten feet four inches ; at twenty 

 feet, nine feet seven inches; at forty feet, 

 seven feet eleven inches ; at sixty feet, four 

 feet eight inches ; at seventy feet, three feet 

 two inches. It contained three hundred feet* 

 or six loads of timber. 



Some years elapsed after these trees were 

 planted before any more larches were set 

 at Dunkeld. A few, however, were planted 

 at Blair in that interval. But the larches 

 planted between the years 1740 and 1750 

 were inconsiderable in point of number; for 

 the planting of the rocky mountains round 

 Dunkeld, with a view to their growing wood, 

 which has since been done, would at that time 

 have been treated as a chimerical idea. 



The Duke of Athol has now been in the 

 habit of cutting larch timber, for different 

 purposes, for thirty years ; and as yet, he 

 says, he has met with no instance to induce 

 him to depart from the opinion, — that larch 

 is the most valuable acquisition, in point of 

 useful timber, that has ever been introduced 

 into Scotland ; and he states, that he has cut 

 and used larch from fifty to sixty years' 

 growth, and that the small larch which were 

 thinned out of plantations, were used for 



