REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON FORESTRY. 339 
“Where would you propose that they should go for their 
practical work from the Watt Institute?” ‘For practical work 
there is a number of forests which are conducted in an excellent 
way, and the foresters there, I have no doubt, would be willing, 
with the consent of the proprietors, to make arrangements for 
receiving such students for three months if there be a winter 
and a summer session, or six months if they have only a 
winter session. But, apart from that, an idea thrown out by Mr 
Mackenzie, who has charge of Epping Forest, was that a school 
should be established in connection with Epping Forest. And he 
suggested that the students should be engaged in practical work in 
Epping Forest, and that, after a year there, the students should go 
on to Windsor Forest for twelve months, or to some other of the 
Crown forests. I asked him if he would be willing to engage 
students from Edinburgh, paying them-wages and engaging them 
in the same way as students from the home college, and he said, 
‘Certainly.’”—‘* Would the training in England be sufficient to 
enable a forester to carry on a Scottish forest with the different 
kind of trees and the different climate there?” ‘ Itis alleged that it 
would not. A meeting of the English Arboricultural Society was 
held in Newcastle a month ago, and one of the members spoke very 
decidedly upon the importance of having a school of forestry in the 
North of England, and some extensive forest at command. There 
is obviously an advantage in enlarging as much as possible the 
experience of foresters. Speaking of the Scottish foresters, I would 
say that I think it would be a very great advantage for them to be 
able to see a little of English forests, along with what they see in 
the management of private forests of Scotland.”—“ Then you think 
the general principles acquired, wherever the school might be, 
could be made applicable to the forests in which they were 
working?” “ Yes.” 
‘Have you any experience of the present working in Scottish 
forests?” ‘ No.”—“ You cannot give an opinion as to whether 
they are scientifically managed enough to render them available 
for instruction?” ‘‘ The management in this country is so different 
from that which is followed in India, and upon the Continent, that, 
with the exception of gaining general information, and skill and 
handicraft, it would not suffice.”—“ It would not suffice for a man 
who had to go to India; but would it not suffice for a man ina 
Scottish forest?” “It would not enable him to manage a forest 
in the Colonies.”—‘ But would it enable a man to manage a 
