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Commission, were such that the programme was carried 

 through without a hitch. 



Shrewsbury was the headquarters of the meeting, where 

 accommodation was found for the entire party. From this 

 centre, Powis Castle, Leighton Hall, Lake Vyrnwy, Kerry 

 woods, Llangollen, and Vivod were visited. 



Most of the members arrived in Shrewsbury on the afternoon 

 of Monday, the 21st June. Mr Forrest, author of The Old 

 Houses of Shrewsbury, who proved a very instructive guide, 

 conducted the party to a number of the old and interesting 

 buildings for which the town is famous. The Quarry Gardens, 

 with its fine avenue of lime trees, were much admired from an 

 arboricultural point of view. 



On Tuesday, the 22nd, an early start was made by motor- 

 buses to Welshpool, and the morning was spent in the Powis 

 Castle grounds. The party were met by Mr J. Edmunds, the 

 estate agent ; Mr Campbell, assistant agent ; and Mr J. 

 Landers, head forester. In the deer park some very fine 

 specimens of oak, sweet chestnut, Douglas fir, cedar, and 

 Jeffrey's pine were seen. The champion oak, Quercus pedunculate^ 

 girths 24 feet at breast-height, its main trunk divides up into 

 a number of massive limbs, the top of the crown reaches to 

 105 feet, and the quarter-girth content over bark is estimated 

 at 2000 cubic feet. Another magnificent specimen, the giant 

 oak, has a cubic content of 1900 feet. A Spanish chestnut was 

 seen at Shepherd's Cross. It rises to a height of 80 feet with 

 a clear bole of 47 feet, and carries a quarter-girth of 30J inches 

 at middle height, over bark measurement. Two Douglas firs, 

 with 429 cubic feet and 390 cubic feet respectively, were seen, 

 also a cedar of Lebanon which girthed 16 ft. 4 ins. at breast- 

 height, and a specimen of Pinus Jeffreyi 130 feet in height 

 which contained 270 cubic feet of timber. 



On leaving the park the party re-entered the buses and were 

 taken along the upper boundary of spring coppice, where some 

 first-class oak were seen. A section of this wood, 14 acres in 

 extent, was sold in 191 7. It contained 429 oaks, 3 elms, 

 1 sycamore, which together totalled 21,000 cubic feet. The 

 crop was about 102 years old and yielded a final return of 

 ^243, 10s. per acre. 



After lunch at the Bungalow, where a fine view of the Castle 

 and the surrounding country was obtained, a plantation with 



