It is quite probable that the larches, firs and other trees now covering the Atholl estates, would sell for 10,000,000 pounds if brought to the hammer.

But he was not only the greatest arboriculturist in the world, but the founder of tree-farming as a productive industry as well as a decorative art.

Already it has transformed the Highlands of Scotland and trebled their value, as well as clothed them with a new and beautiful scenery.

What we call the Scotch larch was not originally a native of that country.

Close to the cathedral in Dunkeld stand the two patriarchs of the family, first introduced into Scotland from Switzerland in 1737.
Having remained the best part of two days in Dunkeld, I held on northward, through heavily-shaded and winding glen and valley to Blair Atholl.