730 The journal of Forestry. 



XXI. For au approved Essay ou the Best Methods of Rearing Timber 

 Trees in Deer Forests for shelter. {A Medal.) 



XXII. For the best and approved Model of a Rustic Arbour or Summer- 

 House, designed and executed by the Competitor. Model not to exceed 

 three feet in height. {A Medal.) 



XXIII. To any Member of the Society who shall send to the Secretary 

 from abroad, cones or seeds of Forest Trees of new or rare species of 

 varieties, capable of germination, and of thriving in this country. (^4 

 Medal.) 



To be awarded when fifty of any sort, or fifty plants in all, have been 

 successfully raised. These plants to be the property of the Society, and to 

 be balloted for amongst Members intimating their desire to have them. 

 The packages to be delivered free of cost to the Society at any British port. 



XXIV. For an approved Essay or Report on any subject connected 

 with Arboriculture. {A Medal.) 



XXV. For any marked advantageous improvement on any of the 

 Implements used in Forestry. (Models or Implements to be accompanied 

 by a Report.) {A 3Iedal.) 



The Judges are empowered to Jlx the value of the Prizes to he awarded 

 according to the respective tnerits of the Essays. 



All Essays and Reports intended for Gompetition must be given in to the 

 Secretary not later than 2ith September, and all Collections of Cones, Seeds, 

 Woods, Geological Specimens, and Rustic WorJc, not later than 22nd October, 

 1878 — each collection bearing a motto, and being accompanied by a separate 

 sealed envelope bearing the same motto outside, and containing a card iviththe 

 name and address of the Competitor. 



Judges cannot compete during their term of office. Bye-law VI. 



Success/id Competitors may either have the medals or their converted values^ 

 which are as follow : Gold, £5; No. iSilver {medal and £l in money), £3 ; 

 No. 2 Silver, £2 ; Bronze, 10s. Bye-laic X. 



JOHN SADLER, 



Secretary. 



Ransome's Tree-Felling Machine. 



In a former number of this Journal this new and important machine was 

 fully described and illustrated, but since that time the patentees, Messrs. 

 A. Ransome and Co., Stanley Works, Chelsea, S.W., hjave been making 

 several improvements in it, the results of which were practically demon- 

 strated in a public trial held on the Roupell Park Estate, near London, on 

 the 11th ult., in the presence of a number of landed proprietors, timber 

 merchants, engineers, &c. The first trees to be experimented on were a 

 row of fair-sized elm, varying in diameter from 2 to 3|^ feet, and good 

 sound timber. 



