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XXXVII. Forestry Exhibition in the Highland and Agricultural 

 Society's Showy ard at Dumfries^ July 1903. 



For the thii'd year in succession the Royal Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural Society organised a Forestry Exhibition in connection 

 with the Agricultural Show, and the Highland and Agricultural 

 Society for the first time placed a money grant at its disposal for 

 the purpose of a prize fund. The sum voted was .£20, to which 

 the Arboricultural Society added a number of medals, making up 

 a competitive list of a dozen classes, but, unfortunately, only 

 one-half of these secured entries. This Exhibition was therefore 

 not quite so attractive as those held during the previous two 

 years, but it yet possessed a good deal of interest for the 

 arboriculturist. There were three entries in the class for a 

 collection of timber of four vai-ieties of conifers grown in 

 Scotland — viz., Scots fir, spruce, silver fir, and larch. In the 

 class for a model of a portable saw-mill for estate purposes there 

 was only one entry. For the best article for estate or farm use, 

 made from home-grown timber, there were three entries, embrac- 

 ing two field gates and a farm cart. In the class for collection of 

 furniture or house-fittings made from home-grown timber, there 

 was a suite of rustic oak furniture in stag-horn design. And in 

 the class for examples showing the best methods of utilising 

 smallwood in the manufacture of fancy wood articles and turnery, 

 woodwork, etc., there was only a fancy rustic oak seat. One of 

 the most useful objects for which the Society offered a medal was 

 for an instrument or method of expeditiously ascertaining the 

 diameter of trees at a given height, and in this class a girth- 

 finder and a pole instrument were entered. The Judges were 

 James Cook, Arniston Estate Office, Gorebridge, and A. T. 

 Gillanders, Forester to the Duke of Northumberland, Alnwick 

 Castle. Their award was presented to the general meeting held 

 on 27th July, and is printed in the proceedings of that meeting. 



Among the articles sent for exhibition only, the Society again 

 exhibited part of a collection of 170 sections of British-grown 

 trees and shrubs, and a series of micro-photographic slides of 

 plant tissue, highly magnified. Captain Walker of Crawfordton 

 sent specimens of various forest trees showing the bad eflfects of 

 " notch " planting. Messrs Thomas Kennedy <k Co., nurserymen, 

 Dumfries (of which firm Mr John Newbigging, one of the local 

 secretaries, is a partner), exhibited a specimen of the Japanese 



