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FORESTRY EXHIBITION AT DONCASTER, 



1912, 



The Forestry Exhibition at Doncaster consisted of 113 entries, 

 and although not containing, perhaps, as many entries as were 

 shown at Norwich, by the interesting character of the exhibi- 

 tions and the improved and excellent staging, it quite maintained 

 the high-class character for which these shows are now attaining 

 a well-deserved reputation. In fact, a very great improvement 

 was noticed in that the exhibits were better shown and more 

 readily seen than last year, and the whole effect was distinctly 

 good. The new arrangement of the buildings, which were so 

 placed that they connected directly with the space set aside 

 for Agricultural Instruction by a covered verandah, in which 

 planks and other heavy exhibits could be shown without undue 

 crowding, was an improvement which the stewards obtained 

 from the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, and the 

 alteration entailed was fully justified, as it gave the exhibits 

 of rare trees and shrubs a most welcome shelter in the form 

 of an enclosure on three sides, helping very largely to show 

 them off and to give a finishing touch to the whole Forestry 

 exhibit. Mr. George Marshall and Mr. C. Coltraan Rogers, 

 the two stewards, are to be congratulated upon the marked 

 improvement in the structural arrangement and staging 

 generally. 



One noticed especially the outside exhibits by Messrs. 

 Dickson, Fisher Son & Sibray, and Kent & Brydon, which did 

 much to beautify the Forestry section. The exhibition of 

 trees, including a great many of considerable rarity, was of 

 the greatest educational interest. These three exhibits attracted 

 a good deal of attention, and it was noticed that there were 

 always several visitors specially interested in identifying the 

 specimens, which were all fully and clearly named. Messrs. 

 Dickson's exhibit was entered in Class 13, and awarded a 

 silver medal for the best exhibit of specimen and ornamental 

 trees. 



The planks exhibited in the first four competitive classes 

 were not so numerous as last year. Amongst these, however, 

 special notice may be made of a good specimen of oak, which 

 was shown by Sir John W. Ramsden, Bart., and one fine larch 

 plank by the Earl of Feversham. An exceptionally' fine exhibit 

 by P. T. Davies Cooke, Esq., in Class 20 was awarded a silver 

 medal, in which the unusual planks of mulberry, catalpa, 

 apricot, and almond were found, with a very fine plank of 



