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II. On the Spring Growth of Forest Trees, (Motto, ‘‘ Mercury.”) 
By A. C. Forses, Wood Manager, Bowood, Calne, 
Wilts. 
Award, a Bronze MEDAL. 
Crass IT, 
I, On Planting and Propagating Trees. (Motto, ‘ Fir Cone.”) 
By James GILvespi£, Lochton Lodge, Inchture, 
Award, a Bronze MEDAL. 
II. On the Thinning of High Forest Plantations for Profit. 
(Motto, ‘‘ Worker.”) By Hampron C. Lock, Moss-side 
Cottage, Lynedoch, Perth. 
Award, a Bronze MEDAL. 
Mopet or New Wire FEncrina. 
The Chairman intimated that, owing to a misunderstanding, a 
Model of a new kind of Wire Fencing, with relative Report and 
Drawings, had reached the Secretary too late to be submitted to 
the Judges and dealt with in their Report, and that the Council 
had appointed a Special Committee to examine the Model, and 
report upon it. This was approved of, and the matter was 
-remitted to the Council, with powers. 
State Mopezt Forests ror SCOTLAND. 
The President reported that, as empowered by last Meeting 
of the Society, the Council had adopted the Scheme for the 
Establishment of State Model Forests for Scotland, which had 
been prepared by Professor Somerville and himself, and had 
sent it, with a covering letter, to the Right Hon. W. H. Long, 
President of the Board of Agriculture. The Scheme has been 
duly acknowledged by Mr Long, and was under his consideration. 
Copies of the pamphlet, and of the letter to Mr Long, have also 
been sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretary for 
Scotland, all the Scottish Members of Parliament, selected 
Members of both Houses of Parliament, all the newspapers of 
importance in Scotland, and the leading Agricultural and Country 
newspapers in England and Ireland. 
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