ON ESTABLISHING AN EXPERIMENTAL FORESY AREA, 183 
With regard to Method 3, it may be found suitable for some 
case under peculiar circumstances, but it has nothing more to 
recommend it, than that it would be better than a lease of 
land, or Method 4, which should not be adopted unless there is 
no chance of carrying out any of the others, from want of means 
or any other cause. 
As has already been said, land suitable for the purpose in 
every way may at present be obtained without any difticulty, 
except that of finding the money wherewith to acquire it and to 
equip the establishment. Indeed, it is in the want of money that 
the whole difficulty lies, and the writer has now to suggest several 
ways of obtaining it. 
1. The suggestion made by the President, Mr Munro Ferguson, 
that the Government having sold Crown lands in Scotland, and 
invested the proceeds in London ground -rents, etc., these should 
be sold, and suitable land purchased with the proceeds. This 
is an admirable suggestion for a legitimate disposal of the 
Scottish funds in question. 
2. Failing the success of No. 1, another method is by an appeal 
to patriotic Scotsmen throughout the world by the Royal Scottish 
Arboricultural Society, through the Lord Mayor of London, and 
all Lord-Lieutenants of counties, Provosts, and Mayors, and also 
Her Majesty’s representatives abroad; the appeal to be signed 
by the President of the Society and as many influential members 
of Parliament as may be pleased to attach their names thereto. 
3. An appeal signed in the same way, and by the same gentle- 
men, made through the newspapers, on the penny subscription 
principle, and of course intimating that small subscriptions would 
be acceptable. Such a course would meet with general satisfac- 
tion, and, with the influence and patronage of the press and 
members of Parliament, the scheme would undoubtedly be a 
success. 
4, By a yearly grant from Government through the Board of 
Agriculture. There is no doubt that the teaching which might 
be given by an institution, as is here contemplated, would prove 
to be on the lines of “Higher Education,” while the Board of 
Agriculture might well and easily supply the means, if for no 
other reason than the fact that forestry is the “‘handmaid” of 
agriculture. 
The writer feels certain that an appeal on one or all of the 
above lines would be certain of obtaining the money, more especi- 
