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of the Gardens for their great kindness and courtesy in conducting 
the parties round the Gardens, and showing them so much to 
remember of Kew and its marvellous treasures. Mr Morris briefly 
replied, and expressed the pleasure it had given the Kew officials 
to receive so large a party from Scotland interested in the same 
studies as themselves. On their way to the Victoria Gate, the 
attention of the party was directed to the tall flagstaff in the 
Gardens, which is 162 feet in height, and was cut in Vancouver 
Island from a single tree of Douglas fir, Abies Douglasit. This 
monster spar is said to weigh 4 tons 8 cwts. 2 qrs., and is believed 
to be the tallest “ tree,” alive or dead, in the United Kingdom. 
THE FORESTRY EXHIBITION. 
From Kew Gardens Station the company travelled to Earl’s 
Court, and by invitation paid a visit to the Exhibition of Gardening 
and Forestry which was being held there. They were met and 
welcomed by Mr H. E. Milner, chairman of the Exhibition 
Committee, who was accompanied by Dr Maxwell T. Masters, 
Professor Curtis, Mr H. Turner, chief of the Gardening Depart- 
ment; Mr George Cadell, chief of the Forestry Department ; Mr 
J. Wright, Mr B. Wynne, and a number of other gentlemen 
interested in the Exhibition. Soon after their arrival the company 
were entertained to luncheon in one of the pavilions, Mr Milner 
being in the chair. 
The CHAIRMAN, in proposing ‘‘ Prosperity to the Royal Scottish Arbori- 
cultural Society,” said it was with great pleasure that the Directors welcomed 
the members of that Society to the Forestry Exhibition, to see what had been 
provided for the profit and amusement of the people. That they were able 
to hold a Forestry Exhibition in London at that time was largely due to the 
work which the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society had prosecuted in the 
north so successfully for so many years. 
Mr Duny, in responding, thanked the Directors for their courteous inyita- 
tion to the members of the Society, of which so large a number of them from 
Scotland had been able to take advantage. This Excursion to the South 
was an occasion which would go down in the records of the Society. The 
members had reaped greater benefits on this than on any previous excursion, 
and they had been enabled to store their minds with knowledge which they 
could not easily acquire at home. He did not say that arboriculture had 
been so closely followed in England as in Scotland, but there were many 
notable instances where forestry was very well done in the South. They 
had seen some of these, and if forestry only received more encouragement 
