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Japanese collection were included no fewer than 302 specimens 
of useful and ornamental woods, many of rare beauty and value. 
Since the days of Siebold, Fortune, and Veitch, the beautiful 
Retinosporas and Cryptomerias of Japan, with their graceful 
habits and feathery foliage, have formed an effective feature in 
our lawn decorations, and also in ornamental plantations ; but few 
were prepared to see that the members of the Arbor-vitee family in 
their own home attained to such gigantic dimensions. Here, for 
example, was a splendid slab of wood from a Retinospora obtusa, 
which had stood 120 feet high, with a girth of 20 feet ; and there 
were sections of the timber of Cryptomeria Japonica, which had 
been taken from trees of stately dimensions. Most lovely slabs 
of “camphor wood” (Cinnamomum camphora) with swirled grain 
were shown, as also pretty examples of maple and bird-cherry, 
junipers and yews. ‘There are six or seven varieties of oak grown 
in Japan, the timber of which, though not equal to that of the 
English oak, is, nevertheless, of excellent quality. A characteristic 
of the timber of the great Japanese tribe of Conifers is its fine even 
quality, close grain, and absence of faults—features which make 
it valuable for all kinds of wood-work. The collection made it 
clear that the Japanese are excellent wood workers and carvers. 
There was an excellent display of their inimitable lacquer-work, 
also numerous examples of cooperage, wickerwork, and other manu- 
factured wooden goods, all displaying much taste in design and 
great excellence in workmanship. Of much practical interest were 
the clever models of charcoal kilns, with numerous specimens of 
charcoal made in such kilns from various kinds of wood. The 
collection of scientific instruments, as well as of the tools and 
implements used in the Japanese forests, was of the greatest 
interest to British foresters, who culled many useful ideas from 
an inspection of them, although in many cases the shape and size 
of the articles were of a rather primitive nature, and not at all 
equal to our own tools and implements of the same kind. 
Guiana. 
Next in order may be mentioned the grand display of Forest 
Products exhibited by the Colony of British Guiana, which 
had the whole of the northern part of the central transept 
and part of the main gallery devoted to its accommodation, and 
