FORESTRY AT HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW. 4-77 



The Countess of Seafield sent, from Castle Grant, a very 

 practical and select collection of manufactured and other 

 specimens of home-grown timbers. This collection comprised 

 both planted and natural-grown timber. The difference was 

 very visible, and, to the expert, was most interesting. In this 

 collection were specimens of timber destroyed by squirrels, and 

 also of injury done to trees by foxes. 



Mr Dyson Perrins, of Ardross, sent, from his excellently 

 timbered estate, very good specimens of timber grown there- — 

 consisting of larch, Scots fir, and spruce, some well-made "rustic 

 work," and specimens of damage done to trees by beetles, black 

 game, and squirrels. 



Mr Steuart Fothringham, of Murthly, sent, from his extensive 

 and beautiful collection of coniferous trees, cones, foliage, and 

 sections of exotic conifers ; also a few fence posts of Douglas 

 fir that had been fourteen years in use, and which, from the 

 appearance they then presented, might last for fourteen years 

 more, the sapwood only being in a state of partial decay. 



Miss Fraser, of Bunchrew, showed a nice collection of exotic 

 conifers in pots — comprising Japanese larch, Abies nobilis, and 

 Pinus riyida; also some fir tops damaged by squirrels. 



From the Blackwood Estate, Mr Sleigh sent about twenty 

 specimens of indigenous, together with thirty specimens of exotic 

 timber, all grown on the Blackwood Estate, near Lesmahagow. 

 All the specimens were of good quality, and suitable for the 

 purposes for which they were intended. 



Only three wood merchants furnished exhibits : — 



Mr James Mackenzie, Inverness, sent a full collection of home- 

 grown Scots fir of good quality, as manufactured for both the 

 English and Scotch markets — comprising the various sizes of 

 pit-wood, sleepers, staves and heading for dried and salted 

 goods; also boxwood, fencing posts, etc. 



Messrs Soilness & Spiers, Warriston Sawmills, Edinburgh, had 

 on view a number of large heavy planks of oak, ash, elm, etc. 

 These planks showed very clearly the colour and quality of the 

 timber, all of which was of first-class quality. 



Messrs Denholm & Co., Pit-prop Importers, Bo'ness, exhibited 

 a neatly got-up collection of pit-wood of various lengths and 

 thicknesses. ' They were the production of Norway, Sweden, 

 Russia, and Germany. It was quite evident that the pit- 

 woods here shown were superior to those obtained from our 

 home woods. In the matter of bulk this was most evident. 



