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THE FORESTRY EXHIBITION AT THE 

 SHREWSBURY SHOW, 1914. 



The Forestry Exhibition at Shrewsbury consisted of 139 

 entries, and compared favourably in variety and interest with 

 the Shows held in the three previous years at Bristol (180 

 entries), Doncaster (113 entries), and Norwich (103 entries). 

 The arrangements were admirably carried out, as usual, by the 

 two stewards, Mr. G. Marshall and Mr. C. C. Rogers. The 

 Forestry building, roomy and airy, was constructed of Scots 

 pine, the timber having been given for the purpose by a local 

 Member of our Society. The outside exhibits of living trees 

 were very interesting ; and it is miicli to be desired that in 

 some way or other this might become a greater feature of 

 future Forestry Exhibitions. Mr. W. P. EUmore, of Leicester, 

 who was awarded a silver medal in the non-coinpetitive Class 

 17, showed a large collection of different willows growing in 

 tubs, accompanied by specimen bundles of the many kinds of 

 rods derived from them. There were seven varieties of Salix 

 purpurea, the most vigorous grower of which for covert 

 purposes is said to be var. contineidalis ; two varieties of Salix 

 hippophai/olia, recommended for planting on sewage farms, 

 and numerous varieties of Salix vimitialis, Salix ti^iandra, 

 and Salix vitellina. Mr. Ellmore has already done much for 

 the important industry of osier-growing by his articles^ in the 

 Journal of the Board of Agriculture for 1911. The cricket 

 bat willow (Salix coerulea) was shown in the form of two-year- 

 old plants ; but as is generally admitted- by growers in the 

 eastern counties, this tree is best propagated by large sets. 



There were also excellent displays out-of-doors of living 

 ornamental trees by two nurserymen, Messrs. Dicksons, of 

 Chester, and the King's Acre Nurseries, of Hereford, the former 

 being awarded the silver medal and the latter the bronze medal 

 in competitive Class 15. Amongst the rare trees exhibited by the 

 Chester firm, were Pinus monophylla and Picea omorica, both 

 of which are now very hard to obtain ; while ornamental forms 

 were exemplified by golden varieties of the Cornish elm, Acer 

 Negundo, Common Oak, Alder, Cupressus macrocarpa, and 

 Lawson Cypress. The King's Acre Nurseries exhibited a 

 peculiar Persian Elm, and numerous examples of ornamental 

 conifers and broad-leaved trees. 



' Reprinted as Bnard of Agriculture, Miscellaneous Publications, No. 18. 

 7'Ap Cultivation of Osiers and Willows, })rice 2d., post free. 



' See article by A. Heury, 011 tlie Cricket Bat Willow, in Trees of Great 

 Britain, VII. pp. I76B — 17<)8, of which an abstract, compiled by Mr. A. P. 

 Long, has been published in Journal of Jioard of At/riculture, KXI., p. 289 

 (July, 1914). 



