3'J2 EDITOBIAL NOTES. [April, 



a matter of diffidence than a want of interest in the Exhibition, which 

 has kept back many foresters until the last moment. It is the first time 

 that foresters in this country have had to undertake anything of the 

 nature of competition at an International Exhibition, and many of 

 them have a difficulty in coraprehendiug what they should do in the 

 circumstances ; whilst others experience such an amount of what 

 we may term bashfulness that they dare not mention the subject to 

 their employers. But obstacles are easily met and overcome when 

 men make up their minds, and our remarks will have not been made 

 in vain if they bring both employers and employed to a proper 

 sense of their duty. 



We have much sympatliy with our correspondent, ' Wairds,' whose 

 letter appears in our ' Editor's Box,' and we believe, from that and 

 other evidence before us, that many foresters hesitated from the 

 same cause, namely, natural modesty, and a doubt as to how their 

 employers would view the matter, and as to the means that would be 

 granted to make a creditable contribution to the Exhibition, and to 

 permit them to visit and carefully examine it. These are matters 

 for mu uxl arrangement; but it must at least be said for employers 

 gennally, that tlieir purses are usually ready to help any one who 

 can show good cause for seeking their assistance, and in this instance 

 the uo' Illness of the cause is self-evident, and requires no particular 

 cxpUimtions. 



By the time these remarlcs appear the period will have passed for 

 closing the entries, and we trust that none of our readers who desire to 

 exhibit liave omitted to make the necessary intimation. However 

 anxious the Committee may be to admit every reasonable application for 

 space, still there must be a limit as to time of entry, so as to allow of 

 proper arrangements being made and facilities given to exhibitors for 

 displaying their articles with the best effect. From what we hear, the 

 open-air space is practically unlimited, and no doubt accommodation will 

 be provided till the last moment for articles which can bear exposure 

 to the weather, but those who have neglected making their entries 

 before this late date should not lose a day in doing so, or they may be 

 excluded altogether. 



Contributions have been promised, it is reported, from Her 

 Majesty the Queen, the Prince of Wales, and others of the Eoyal 

 Family ; from most of the countries of Europe ; the United States of 



