Tree-planting for ornamentation or profit, suitable to every soil and situation by Roland Arthur

Author:Roland, Arthur
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Trees, Tree planting
Publisher: London : Chapman
Published: 1887-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

as straight as possible for forty feet, being extremely-valuable, so much so that it is said the timber of Rothiemurchus often yielded a revenue of over ^18,000 per annum.

A singular record is preserved of the old forest of Glenmore^ which was almost wholly felled at the end of the last and beginning of the present century.

The forest was purchased by William Osbourne of Hull, of the Duke of Gordon. When it had been entirely cut down, he presented the duke with a plank cut from the largest tree produced in the forest, which now stands (or used to stand) in the entrance-hall of Gordon Castle. It is about six feet long, and measures five feet five inches broad, having a brass plate affixed to it, on which is inscribed : *' In the year 1783 William Osbourne, Esquire, Merchant of Hull, purchased of the Duke of Gordon the forest of Glen-more, the whole of which he cut down in the space of twenty-two years, and built during that time, at the mouth of the river Spey, where never vessel was built before, forty-seven sail of ships, of upwards of 19,000 tons burden. The largest of them, of 1,050 tons, and three others little inferior in size, are now in the service of His Majesty and the Honourable East India Company. This undertaking was completed at the expense (of labour only) of about ^70,000. To His Grace the Duke of Gordon this plank is offered, as a specimen of the growth of one of the trees in the above forest, by His Grace's most obedient servant William Osbourne. 1S06."

In England the seeds of the Scotch pine are usually sown about the middle of April, and in Scotland somewhat later, about the end of the month or beginning

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