^E hear that the Internatioual Forestry Exhibition is meeting 

 witli the usual opposition which all such enlightened enter- 

 prises receive at the hands of the ignorant or ill-disposed ; and 

 that there is a great probability of its being consigned to an obscure 

 suburb of the northern city through mere captiousness, founded upon 

 some indefensible legal quibble. If it be true, as we have heard, that 

 a legal action is threatened against the use, for the purposes of the 

 Exhibition, of any public park or garden belonging to the city, the public 

 spirit of Edinburgh must have sunk to a very low ebb ; and we shall 

 begin to think that the Committee have made a great error in selectinf>- 

 Edinburgh for holding the Exhibition. Even yet, if they would come 

 to London and hold their Exhibition at South Kensington, as we believe 

 was once proposed, we do not doubt but that our Metropolitan 

 authorities would receive them with open arms, and do their utmost to 



assist them in carrying out with success their great national enterprise. 



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Owing, we understand, to the great and totally unexpected diffi- 

 culties placed in the way of the Committee in securing a good site 

 for the Exhibition, there has been nothing else done during the past 

 month to advance the preparations for it ; but in the New Year, with 

 the difficulties about the site overcome, we shall hope, and in an early 

 issue, to be able to lay before our readers some details of its arran"e- 

 ments and of its scope. In the meantime, we are pleased to report 

 that people at a distance are looking with a much more favourable 

 eye on this Exhibition and its outcome than it appears the people of 

 Edinburgh are doing. By every mail letters of application for space, 

 and for information about the Exhibition, are pouring into our 



