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growth of the wood over the wound. There are fifty or sixty 
different specimens showing this, and a quarter of an hour’s 
instruction to the pupils would convince every one of them at 
once, if they were at the same time shown the specimens.”—‘‘ Were 
those drawings, or the actual woods themselves?” ‘‘They were 
pieces cut out of the trees, and were shown at the Paris Exhibi- 
tion. Nothing could be better than that, because five minutes’ 
inspection and explanation to an intelligent man would show the 
different effects of having left the branch with a long snag, and of 
paring it quite close to the trunk.”—‘“ In regard to Cooper's 
Hill being the centre of the School of Forestry, have you any pro- 
position to make with regard to the establishing of an affiliated 
branch—let us say, of such a school in Scotland?” “I would 
rather not say anything about that, because I have not been in 
Edinburgh lately, and I could not speak from personal knowledge. 
But I think that the Scots must take it up, because it is naturally 
too far to bring Scotsmen of the forester class to Cooper’s Hill. 
But, as I have said all along, you cannot have proper forest teach- 
ing unless you have a forest under your control to which you can 
send your people ; and it would not be sufficient to have permission 
from the Duke of Buccleuch, or any other large wood-owner, to go 
into his woods, because his manager would say, ‘No, I have my 
own ways of managing, and I cannot have you interfering.’ ” 
** You have expressed, on the whole, a favourable opinion of the 
state of forestry in Scotland as contrasted with that in England. 
In M. Boppe’s Appendix to the Report on the English and Scottish 
Forests, on page 47, he says: ‘We were also struck by the mono- 
tonous regularity in the height and age of the trees, unmistakable 
sign of their artificial origin and want of methodical management. 
The forest, here left to its own devices, continues growing just as 
the hand of man has planted it; the undergrowth is constantly 
grazed down by the sheep and cattle; and Nature, in spite of the 
immense resources at her disposal, is quite powerless to modify the 
work of the planter, or repair the errorscommitted by woodcutters,’”— 
“Tn that passage he seems to imply that, although the Scottish forests 
may be superior to the English, there is great room for improve- 
ment?” “ What he desired was to see the system of natural repro- 
duction introduced much more largely into the Scottish forests, 
considering that that would be the means of avoiding disease 
in the larch, and that, as Scots fir reproduces itself so very 
readily, it would bea great saving in the expense as compared with 
