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them in preference to European larch growing within a few yards 

 of them, and almost without exception the remainder of the trees, 

 which were scattered through the wood, lost their tops from frost, 

 the tops being black for three or four inches. On a neighbouring 

 estate some Japanese larch of three years old were also put in on 

 a southern exposure, but sheltered by a belt of large trees. These 

 have done well, and he concludes that the Japanese larch cannot, 

 like the European larch, stand, when young, exposure to the sun 

 during frost. 



British Forestry Exhibition. 

 Under this heading the Royal Agricultural Society of England 

 have issued a circular, signed by Lord Granby, Chairman of the 

 Forestry Committee, intimating that their Council have decided to 

 hold a British Forestry Exhibition in connection with the Society's 

 Annual Agricultural Show of 1904, to take place at Park Royal, 

 Willesden, London, N.W., from the 21st to the 25th June next. 

 The Exhibition is evidently to be on similar lines to the Annual 

 Exhibition of this Society, which is to be held at Perth this year, 

 from 19th to 22nd July. 



Prize Essay on Forestry. 

 It is gratifying to observe that the Worshipful Company of 

 Carpenters, one of the old City guilds of London, have offered two 

 prizes, of the value of £20 and £10, for the best and second best 

 essays on the following subject : — "Adaptation of land which has 

 either gone out of cultivation or which has only a very low 

 rentable value for afforestation : showing the mode of procedure 

 from taking the land over, and for twenty years after; and some 

 statistics as to what returns may be looked for from this period 

 up to maturity." 



Systematic Management of Woods. 

 The advantages of systematic management are not yet generally 

 recognised by the proprietors of wooded estates; but it is satis- 

 factory to learn that some progress in this direction is made from 

 time to time. Mr J. G. A. Baird, M.P., has recently arranged 

 for the working of his woods on the Colstoun estate, Haddington, 

 under a plan drawn up by Mr Eraser Story. 



