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were found in a state of great perfection. What added additional 
pleasure to their inspection was that they were shown to the 
company by Mr Begg, the gardener who reared them from seed 
brought from America in 1861. One grove of them on the north 
side of the Teith was particularly attractive. The trees, ranging 
from 58 to 62 feet—one had shot up to 67—were clothed to the 
very ground with the freshest foliage, and the drooping habit of 
several of them lent them additional grace. The greatest girth 
of any of these trees was 5 feet 9 inches, and with one exception 
these Albert firs were all over 5 feet in circumference. A 
Douglas fir planted at the same time was 57 feet high and 7 feet 
in circumference. 
The respective keights and girths of the Albert firs measured 
were—(1) 67 feet high, 5 feet 2 inches in girth at 4 feet up, the 
height at which they were all measured; (2) 62 feet high, and 
4 feet 10 inches in girth; (3) 58 feet high, and 4 feet 10 inches 
in girth; (4) 60 feet high, and 5 feet 9 inches in girth; (5) 58 
feet high, and 5 feet 4 inches in girth; (6) 62 feet high, and 
4 feet 10 inches in girth ; (7) 62 feet high, and 5 feet 7 inches in 
girth. A good Menzies fir was 65 feet high, and 7 feet in girth. 
Thanks were voted to Mr Begg, and to Mr Dinwoodie, the forester, 
for their services, and to Sir Robert Jardine for his kindness in 
opening his grounds to the Society. 
THe DINNER. 
The party reached Callander at 8 o’clock, and immediately 
thereafter sat down to dinner in the Dreadnought Hotel. Pro- 
fessor Bayley Balfour presided, and had on his right Mr M‘Michael, 
the town-clerk of the burgh, and on his left Professor Schwappach. 
The croupier was Mr Malcolm Dunn, Convener of the Excursion 
Committee. 
There was a pleasing exchange of compliments between the 
chairman and the German guest, and in the speeches that were 
made in the course of the evening, reference was made anew to 
the necessity of the Government taking up the question of 
afforesting the waste lands of the country, and of establishing 
experimental forest areas. 
Professor BayLey Batrour said they might take the fact of 
Professor Schwappach’s presence there as a recognition on the 
