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XIX. Forestry Exhibition in the Highland and Agricultural 

 Society s Showyard at Aberdeen, July 1902. 



The auspicious commencement made last year at the Inverness 

 Show encouraged the Royal Scottish A rboricultural Society to 

 organise another Forestry Exhibition this year in connection v?ith 

 the Highland Show at Aberdeen. One of the objects of the 

 Society is to illustrate the specialities in wood-growing of the 

 particular district in which the Exhibition is for the time being 

 held; and they were fortunate in securing this year the services 

 as local secretaries of Mr James Wilson, Fordyce Lecturer in 

 Agriculture at Aberdeen University, and of Mr John Clark, 

 forester to the Earl of Aberdeen, whose tact and enthusiasm 

 were the means of bringing together a compact, varied, and 

 attractive collection. Their aim was to draw together an assort- 

 ment of specimens of a representative and educative character, 

 and a cordial response was made to the Society's invitation for 

 contributions. Forestry in many of its most important branches 

 was illustrated ; and, closely allied as this science is to agriculture, 

 the Forestry Exhibition formed a pleasing and instructive adjtinct 

 to the other features of the great show within the enclosure of 

 which it was held. There were in all forty separate exhibits, some 

 of which included as many as twenty diflferent articles, and these 

 were arranged either under cover or in the open, according to 

 their nature. 



From Balmoral, Mr Michie, the King's factor, sent a variety 

 of articles, comprising some very fine pine boards, grown on 

 thi Balmoral estate. He sent also a great many specimens 

 of carving upon oak and other hard woods by members of the 

 Balmoral Carving Society. In the initiation and progress of that 

 S iciety the late Queen Victoria and Princess Henry of Batten- 

 berg took the keenest interest, and the fine workmanship displayed 

 on the numerous beautiful platters, shields and trays, etc., shown, 

 gave ample proof of the aptness of the pupils. There was like- 

 wise an exquisite table-top, made of pitch pine root and bordered 

 by pitch pine wood beautifully polished and varnished. A 

 collection of from fifteen to twenty carved walking-sticks was 

 another feature of the Balmoral contribution. 



As was the case last year, the largest number of exhibits came 



