

URING the past month the International ^ Forestry Exhibition 

 at Edinburgh has been making steady progress in public 

 favour, and is receiving the most influential support that the 

 warmest advocate could ask for it. The extensive list of patrons 

 last issued, and graciously headed by Her Majesty The Queen, 

 includes the Prince of Wales, and the Eoyal Dukes of Edinburgh, 

 Connaught, Albany, and Cambridge ; the Prime IMinister ; the Foreign, 

 Colonial, and Indian Secretaries of State ; the Lords of the Admiralty, 

 and the Council of Education; the Ambassadors for Denmark, Turkey, 

 Italy, Chili, and Siam ; the Eajah Brooke, of Sarawak ; nearly 

 three hundred Peers, Baronets, IMembers of Parliament, and other 

 landowners and distinguished persons. With such an array of 

 patrons, the success of any enterprise for the public good would be 

 ensured, and it now remains with the Committee and the Edinburgh 

 authorities to make it a thorough success, in every sense. 



On Wednesday, the 21st ult., a deputation from the Executive Com- 

 mittee of the Exhibition, headed by Dr. Cleghorn, of Stravithie, in 

 the unavoidable absence of the IMarquis of Lothian, waited ' upon the 

 Lord Provost's Committee of the Town Council of Edinburgh, and 

 expressed their earnest desire to have a portion of the West Princes 

 Street Gardens set apart for the Exliibition, including the Castle 

 slopes, as being suitable for showing the forest trees which grow at 

 various altitudes. It was explained that the gardens would not be 

 materially injured in any way. The buildings to be erected would 

 only occupy the space upon which no valuable trees are growing, 

 west of the band-stand now in the gardens ; and it was also explained 



