94 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
that if a comparison is made between land rented at anything below 
10s. an acre which is now under arable farming, and land which is 
properly cultivated as timber land, the balance of profit will be 
shown very much in favour of the land which is under timber. It 
is certain there is a large area of land in Scotland that might be 
profitably planted. There are two parishes in Ross-shire which I 
have estimated myself carefully, along with Mr Robertson, and our 
conclusion was that two-thirds of these parishes might be planted, 
and would pay better under trees than in any other way. At the 
present time I think only one-eighth or one-tenth of these parishes 
is planted ; and I believe there are parishes all over the country 
where, in similar proportions, planting might be done to the good of 
the owners and to the great good of the country. 
I may mention one or two of the drawbacks and disadvantages 
under which Scottish Forestry labours at the present time. First, 
the facilities for Forestry education in this country are practically 
nothing. ‘There are lectures—and very good lectures—given not a 
hundred miles from where we are now, and there are half-a-dozen 
large estates where good practical work can be done by being 
attached to the staffs upon these estates. But compare Scotland 
with Bavaria, which is a country very much the same in size. 
Why, in Munich there are several Forestry chairs, and there are 
schools, other than the university, where education in connection 
with Forestry can be obtained. I should think that as large 
a proportion of Scotland might be planted as a forest area as 
there is in Bavaria. Bavaria is not one whit better adapted to 
timber-growing than this country, but the provision for Forestry 
education is on a far different scale. Then, I think in this 
country we are under the wrong department of the State. We 
cannot expect very much to be done by the Board of Agriculture 
for Forestry. I opposed Forestry being put under the Board of 
Agriculture, because I was satisfied that little or nothing would be 
done for Forestry by that Board; and it is impossible for the 
Board of Agriculture, as it is at present constituted, to be of much 
use to Forestry, or to do much for Forestry education. Then, I 
think the allowances to Scottish establishments—say to the Botanic 
Gardens—are on a much lower scale than the corresponding 
allowances in England. The forest area of England is not so very 
much larger than the forest area of Scotland, and yet grants are 
given to institutions and to purposes which are helpful to Forestry 
in England, very much larger in proportion than the grants given 
