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PARIS EXHIBITION. 



SiK, — Having undertaken to write a report on the present state of 

 Forestry in Scotland, under the auspices of the Ilighlaud and Agricultural 

 Society, for the Commissioners of the International Exhibition to be held 

 at Paris this year, I will be very much obliged if any of your readers in 

 the north (especially practical foresters) will kindly send to my address, 

 at their earliest possible convenience, any information regarding the 

 woods in their respective localities, or under their own charge ; detailing 

 the extent of the acreage under wood, the age and varieties of trees 

 generally, their average height or size, the altitude of the situation, 

 nature of soil, &c. 



Any observations as to management, or other information they may 

 choose to communicate to me, will be very acceptable. 



I am, sir, yours faithfully, 



RoBT. Hutchison. 



29, Chester Street, Edinhurgh, 

 24th Jcimiary, 1878. 



[We strongly recommend the above to the favourable notice of our 

 readers in Scotland. It is only through the kind interest of proprietors, 

 and the active assistance of intelligent foresters, that the necessary in- 

 formation can be obtained ; and we hope that our Scotch friends will show 

 their usual intelligence and alacrity in promptly supplying Mr. Hutchison 

 with the desired information, so that a full and complete report of the 

 present state of Scotch Forestry may be drawn up for this important 

 occasion.— ^J.] 



ESTATES MANAGEMENT. 

 Sir,— I am pleased to find your correspondent "A. B. " has broached 

 this subject in your last issue, and that it has met with a hearty endorse- 

 ment from you. Those in charge of estates have, or are supposed to have, 

 clear and comprehensive views of farming in all its branches ; keeping 

 pace by reading, observation, and practice with the ever progressive state 



