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Scotland till the beginning of the 18th century (1700), and, of 
planting in masses, the remark is nearly correct. He himself was 
among the first who planted on the great scale, and with method 
and discrimination. But a little before his time (a.d. 1680) 
Andrew Heron was planting at Bargally, in the stewartry of Kirk- 
cudbright, which Loudon considered “ the most interesting place in 
Scotland with respect to the introduction of foreign trees and shrubs.” 
Dukes John and Archibald of Argyll followed, bringing their 
English experience to bear on Scotland. Lord Haddington and 
his wife made the noble wood of Tyningham out of a rabbit-warren. 
The Earl of Bute, Lord Loudoun, and Lord Hyndford, were planters 
in the most favourable situations of Scotland. The Earl of Panmure 
planted endless beech avenues at Panmure, which within memory 
were grand and growing trees, and proved how the East 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 larches (a.d. 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 Rankeillor, Lord Cath- 
cart, Sir Francis Kinloch, Sir John Dairy mple, Wauchop of Edmon- 
ston, Sir James Dick of Priestfield, Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees, 
the Duchess of Buccleuch, Sir James Cunninghame, Lord Living- 
ston. 
