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from exotic trees ; a collection of books on forestry ; and of plants 

 naturally sown and transplanted, showing the difference in root- 

 formation. Lady Seafield's forester in Abernethy forwarded 

 several very fine self-sown young pine trees, grown in peat soil. 



In the exhibit from Mr John Boyd, forester, PoUok, there were 

 sections of stems of acers and horse-chestnuts affected by fungus ; 

 and also plants showing the results of different methods of trans- 

 planting. 



A curiosity in tree-growth came from Mr H, L. Macdonald of 

 Dunacb, Oban, in the shape of the top of a young larch, fifteen 

 years old, showing a peculiar twisting growth with a flattening of 

 leading shoot, followed by the resumption of normal development. 

 This tree was perfectly healthy, and growing at the rate of about 

 two feet a year. Mr Fraser Story's contribution from The Glen, 

 Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, was an exceedingly interesting collec- 

 tion of German forestry implements. In the exhibits from Mr 

 W. Steuart Fothringham of Murthly, attention was arrested 

 by the handsome inlaid table of home-grown woods, comprising 

 sixty varieties. He also sent a cross sectiou of a cedar of 

 Lebanon, about 3 feet 6 inches in diameter, and between seventy 

 and eighty years old ; also a cross section of a Californian 

 mountain pine, about 2 feet 6 inches in diameter, and about 

 thirty years old. 



An outstanding exhibit was that of Mr L. Gavin, The School- 

 house, Drumwhindle, Ellon, Aberdeenshire, consisting of speci- 

 mens of home-grown woods which he uses for object-lessons given 

 in his school. Were his example more widely followed, the 

 objects of the Arboricultural Society would receive very practical 

 assistance. 



In addition to Lord Aberdeen, the local proprietors who kindly 

 forwarded specimens were Mr Dyce Nicol of Ballogie, who through 

 his overseer, Mr George Wyllie, contributed two boards of Scots 

 fir; Mr Forbes Leith of Fyvie, through his forester, Mr Simon 

 Campbell, sent six pieces of Scots fir damaged by snowstorm, etc.; 

 and Lieutenant-Colonel F. N. Innes of Learney, whose exhibits 

 were designed to show the advantage of planting trees by pitting 

 as against notching ; a section of larch, eighty-five years old, 

 larch damaged by squirrels, and a sycamore damaged by frost, 

 were also in his collection. In the same category was placed the 

 consignment from Sir John R. Gladstone, Bart, of Fapque, Fetter- 

 cairn, who showed specimens of pitted, as against notched timber. 



