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planted endless beech avenues at Panmure, which within memory 
were grand and growing trees, and proved how the Hast Coast may 
be made to produce fine timber. 
It has been said by old foresters that Panmure and Yester were 
the two places where beech was first planted largely. The taste 
spread rapidly. It was from Lord Tweeddale that the first President 
Dundas brought a present of thirty beech plants and one elm, which 
were carried in his portmanteau, on his servant’s horse, to Arniston. 
The beeches are still standing and flourishing in the south avenue. 
They bear the marks of having been headed down in transplanting 
—a practice of that time. 
Next came the taste for larch, which must have been introduced 
in several places as soon as at Dunkeld, though the story of the 
Duke’s two flower-pot Jarches (a.p. 1727) may be true too. 
A few giant larches at Arniston may be as old, and one or two 
in the “ Paradise,”’ by the river side at Monymusk, are apparently 
coeval, as they are coequal, with the finest trees at Dunkeld. 
In the north country the Duchess of Gordon (the Mordaunt 
Duchess) was a great improver, and planted to some extent both at 
Gordon Castle and in Strathspey. Sir William Gordon of Inver- 
gordon planted and drained extensively ; and other improvers and 
planters of that time were Ross of Balnagown, the Grants of 
Monymusk, Scott of Scotstarvet, Hope of Rankaillor, Lord Cath- 
cart, Sir Francis Kinloch, Sir John Dalrymple, Wauchop of Edmon- 
ston, Sir James Dick of Priestfield, Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees, 
the Duchess of Buccleuch, Sir James Cunninghame, Lord Living- 
ston. 
_ Reid’s “ Scots Gardener,” published in 1683, shows the taste 
for wood already begun. Sir Archibald Grant of Monymusk has 
left us a brief but interesting account of the planting and other 
improvements begun by him in 1716. The Earl of Haddington 
published, in 1733, a minute account of his planting operations. 
At Arniston are preserved original accounts and contemporary docu- 
ments showing the extent and manner of planting there during almost 
the whole of last century, and also a narrative detailing the results 
made up from such materials, written by the Lord Chief Baron 
Dundas. An anonymous writer in 1729 (believed to be Mr M‘Intosh 
of Borlum) mentions a good many improvers, enclosers, and planters, 
in Scotland at that time. Mr Walker, Professor of Natural History 
at Edinburgh, in his “ Economical History of the Hebrides and 
Ilighlands,” and his collected “ Essays,” gives the results of his own 
observations of trees through Scotland, from about 1760, for twenty 
years. Sang’s “ Planter’s Calendar;” Dr Patrick Graham’s “ Ge- 
neral Report of Scotland; Monteith’s ‘ Forester’s Guide;” Sir 
Thomas Dick Lauder’s edition of “Gilpin,” furnish a consider- 
able mass of information of the state of wood in Scotland during a 
