INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY EXHIBITION. 105 
A Collection of Conifers, including—Cupressus Lawsoniana 
and Thuiopsis dolabrata, grown from cuttings ; Scots Fir, 
showing the difference between plants raised from foreign 
and home-grown seed ; two plants of Cedrus Libani raised 
from seed collected in the Lebanon by the Countess of 
Hopetoun in 1865; Pinus pyrenaica grafted upon Pinus 
sylvestris ; and the true type of Cedrus deodara. 
A specimen of Norway Spruce (Abies eacelsa), blown over 
about forty years ago, thereafter rooting in two places 
along the prostrate bole of the tree, from which two trees 
have grown up, one to the height of 63 feet 5 inches, the 
other 61 feet 4 inches. 
A curious excrescence of an Elm (U/mus montana). 
Silver Medal awarded for the Collection. 
Maxtone, Robert, Forester, Strathallan Castle, Perthshire. 
Harmonium made by Exhibitor from wood grown on Strath- 
allan Estate. Awarded a Diploma. 
A Staple Drawer ; invented by the Exhibitor. 
Self-Shutting Iron Wicket gate ; invented by the Exhibitor. 
Cross and length sections of the following woods :—Cedrus 
Libani, about ninety years old. Blown down on 27th 
January 1884. Height, 634 ft. ; girth at 3 ft. up, 124 ft. 
Abies Douglasii. Planted in 1866. Blown down on 28th 
December 1879 (Tay Bridge gale). 
Abies Douglasti. Planted in 1866 ; a fine specimen, showing 
very rapid growth. 
Picea pinsapo, about thirty years old. 
Cross and length sections of Bog Oak, 23 ft. long and 44 ft, 
broad at the root end; found in a moss at the Muir of 
Tullibardine. 
Cross section of Norway Spruce. 
Length section of a fine and very old Holly Tree, blown down 
28th December 1879; formerly used as a target. The sec- 
tion shows an arrow-head and arrow points sticking in it. 
Six live plants of Abies Douglasii raised from seed sown in 
1880; gathered from trees grown at Strathallan Castle, 
the seed of which was grown at Murthly Castle, the young 
trees exhibited being the Z’hird Generation of the Douglas 
Fir grown in Perthshire. 
Bronze Medal awarded for the Collection. 
