180 Plantations ayid Home Nur-xeries Comj^etition, 1914. 



The Midland Reafforestiiig Association, who were awarded a 

 bronze medal, showed photographs, maps and plans, illustrating 

 the nature of their work in encouraging the planting of pit 

 wastes, railway banks, ballast heaps, and school play-grounds in 

 the Black Country and other parts of the Midlands. It is satis- 

 factory to learn that a grant of lOOZ. out of Development Funds, 

 was given in 1913 to the Association for the formation of experi- 

 mental plots, Moorcroft being selected as the most desirable site. 



In Class 19, Forestry Tools and Accessories in use on 

 Exhibitors' Estate, Mr. C. C. Rogers made an admirable exhibit, 

 for which a silver medal was awarded. In Class 20, Insect and 

 Fungoid Pests, a bronze medal was awarded to the Earl of 

 Powis, for exhibits from Walcot and from Powis Castle. Mr. 

 C. C. Rogers showed an interesting exhibit, arranged by his 

 agent, Mr. E. P. Rogers, illustrating the attack and death of a 

 Douglas fir by Agaricus melleus. A bronze medal was awarded 

 to the Earl of Powis for specimens of timber illustrating the 

 effects of creosoting (Class 23). 



A special exhibit by Messrs. R. Groom, Sons & Co., of 

 Wellington, Salop, was awarded a silver medal, though it was 

 not entered in any of the regular classes, 1 to 23. It included 

 specimens of bendware, turnery and miscellaneous woodware, 

 showing the process of manufacture from timber in the rough 

 to the finished article. This varied collection illustrated well 

 the uses to which woods of different species are applied. Thus 

 we noticed sycamore being used for spade handles and for 

 wooden bowls, ash for hockey sticks, elm for yokes used in 

 carrying water and for the rims of riddles, and beech for 

 shovels, &c. Also unclassed was an exhibit of wood pulp 

 and paper making, lent to Mr. C. C. Rogers for the Exhibition, 

 by Mr. A. Macorquodale, of Cound Hall, and by the North 

 Wales Paper Company, Flint. 



A. Henry. 



Royal College of Science, 

 Dublin. 



REPORT OF JUDGES ON PLANTATIONS 

 AND HOME NURSERIES COMPETITION, 



1914. 



The counties included in this year's district are : — Shropshire, 

 Staffordshire, Montgomery, and Radnor, and considering that 

 part of the area is a tract of land famous for its production of 

 timber, it is not altogether surprising that the entry is a record 

 one in connection with these competitions. The numbers 

 were : — Shropshire 36, Staffordshire 4, Montgomery 10, and 



