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who own woodlands to send their wood-reeves to a Scottish forest 
to learn something of forestry?” ‘ Perhaps I should be careful 
not to put it quite so general as that ; to a good Scottish forester, 
I would say.”—“ Would it not be the case that the instruction 
there would be somewhat imperfect, in view of the difference in 
the climate and the flora of Scotland from that of the south of 
England ; for instance, the Spanish chestnut would not be found 
in the north of Scotland?” ‘The statement I made was to this 
effect, that I should send him to a Scottish forester in the 
absence of a forest school; but, if there were a proper place for 
training, I should send him to the forest school.”—“ Do you think 
it would be better to have a school for England and a separate 
school for Scotland?” ‘J do not think the climatic difference 
between Scotland and England is so great as to make it necessary 
to have two schools for the two countries.”—‘‘ Would there not 
be a great difference geologically?” ‘‘That opens a very large 
question. It is generally found that, with few exceptions, most 
of our timber trees do not mind what is the geological origin of 
the soil so long as it has certain physical qualities; so that the 
geological question would hardly come into consideration.” 
“In the paper handed in last year, containing the report by M. 
Boppe with regard to English and Scottish forests, it is stated that 
‘in the low-lying districts at an altitude of from 250 to 300 feet 
we found growing, both singly along the roadside and collectively 
in forests, magnificent specimens of oak, maple, elm, ash, beech, 
and lime. And again, ‘The mountain vegetation commences 
at about 400 feet above the level of the sea ;’ now, in the county 
of Surrey, would it not be the case that the deciduous vegetation, 
if you may call it so, the beech, the oak, and other trees, would 
grow at a higher altitude than they would in Scotland?” “Tf I 
correctly understand the drift of the question, I do not think 
that M. Boppe meant to say that that was exactly the limit; I 
believe that the distribution is to a very large extent quite 
artificial, according to what has been planted. I believe that in 
Scotland they plant the beech in the lower parts near the parks 
and places of that sort, and that in the mountains they plant 
more fir. At the same time it is quite correct that the oak in 
Scotland will not grow at so high an elevation as it will in 
England, nor in England will it grow so high as it will in France.” 
“You were good enough to give the Committee a rough esti- 
mate of the amount of acreage of waste land in Ireland and in 
