Plantations and Home Nxirseries Competition, 1914. 197 



Class I. for the Best Managed General Home 

 Nursery not Less than 1 Acre, brought out three 

 entries, and the Judges had no hesitation in awarding the first 

 prize to Captain Heywood-Lonsdale for his conifer nursery 

 at Frees Heath. 



This was fully stocked with fine, healthy, well-rooted 

 plants, mostly raised from seed in the nursery, and the seed 

 beds this year were looking very well and promising to yield 

 a quantity of useful young stufi:. Formed in 1911, and 

 apparently worked on economical lines, this nursery was 

 shown in first class condition. No space was taken up with 

 ornamental plants, the whole available land was under useful 

 forest trees to the number, of all classes, of nearly 250,000 ; a 

 considerable proportion was Corsican pine, with which there 

 appeared to have been practically no losses in transplanting. 



The second prize was gained by Lord Harlech, Brogyntyn, 

 for a nursery extending to 2 acres, lying at an altitude of 

 560 ft. with a north-east exposure. 



This nursery contains a large number of trees of a variety 

 of species, mainly bought in as seedlings, though there is a 

 considerable area taken up with seed beds this year. The land 

 is very clean, and the nursery is obviously well kept. There 

 appeared to be a shortage of trees for planting out in the 

 corning season, and some had been transplanted last spring 

 which hardly seemed to have required it. Additional expense 

 had, therefore, been incurred, which might have been avoided. 

 Part of the ground was under potatoes in order to clean and 

 manure the land. 



There was a fine collection of flowering shrubs from 

 Western China, which were doing very well. 



Class II., Limited to Nurseries of Less than 1 

 Acre in Extent. The first prize here was awarded to Sir 

 H. W. A. Ripley for a most interesting nursery at Bedstone. 

 Formerly the site of an old gai-den, this nursery lies in the 

 bottom of a small valley, at an altitude of 600 ft., and the 

 aspect is north to east. 



It contains, in addition to the ordinary nursery stock, a 

 large and interesting collection of transplants of the rarer 

 conifers, which are to be used for ornamental purposes and 

 for forming experimental grou})S in different parts of the 

 woods. Owing to the situation, which is practically a "frost 

 hole," several species, notably the silver firs and sweet chestnut, 

 had suffered severely from damage by frost this spring, and 

 even into the early summer. Notwithstanding this, there is 

 a good stock of fine, healthy material, carefully lined out, at 

 suitable distances, but no seed beds were noticed. 



