456 THE CANADIAN NATURALIST. [Dec. 



With regard to the other collections, chiefly appertaining 

 to Class 87, the reporter has little to say ; there was no English 

 exhibitor, and up to the end of April, when the jurors were called 

 together for the purpose of deciding upon the merits of the 

 exhibitors, there were no collections of any importance ready for 

 adjudication. 



Further, various circumstances occurred that rendered it 

 impossible to consider certain collections of plants, some of whose 

 contents might be considered as referable to Class 87, from other 

 cognate classes, and it hence became necessary to amalgamate the 

 duties of Class 87 with those of other classes, including that 

 class under which hardy conifers more naturally came, as objects 

 of landscape gardening or ornamental planting, and not of forestry 

 proper. Under this head comes the beautiful collection of hardy 

 conifers of Messrs. Veitch & Sons, to which the first prize was 

 awarded, with the full complement of marks ; and the same firm 

 carried off the first prize for a collection of the rarest Coniferse 

 not yet in commerce. 



The collection at Billancourt, which did not exist in April, was 

 visited by Dr. Moore, F.L.S., associate juror, in August, and 

 he found many very interesting plants suited for forest purposes 

 amongst them, but they were not exhibited under Class 87, and I 

 shall therefore allude to them here in reference to their being 

 probably, at some future period, introduced into plantations 

 in such considerable quantities as to be profitable as timber 

 trees. 



M. Accidin, nurseryman, Lisseux, was awarded the first 

 prize for a collection of forest conifers, which consisted of the 

 kinds usually selected for the same purpose in England, along with 

 many rare species which are not yet sufficiently abundant 

 for forest planting, though they may yet become suitable for that 

 purpose when the prices at which they now sell are lowered 

 at least ninety per cent. Pinus grandis, P. nobilis, P. Nordman- 

 niana, P. Beiithamiana, P. Coulteri, etc., all of which were in this 

 collection, are not likely to be either moderate in price or 

 plentiful for many years to come. There were equally rare 

 Thujas and Cupressus in this collection, as well as other 

 scarce CDniferse, which obviously cannot be considered under 

 Class 87. 



M. Accidin had also a large collection of trees generally 

 used in forest planting, such as oaks, Juglans, willows, etc. 



