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Competitive Section. 



Classes 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6. — Planks of Scots pine, Norway spruce, 

 larch, oak, and ash. ist Prize: The Earl of Mansfield, 

 Scone Palace, Perth, per Mr Wm. Leven, forester — ^5. 



Class 17. — Specimens demonstrating the beneficial effects of 

 good as compared with bad pruning, ist Prize: Mr H. R. 

 Munro, Estate Office, Charborough Park, Wareham, Dorset 

 — No. 1 Silver Medal. 2nd Prize: Mr James M 'Hardy, 

 Lundin and Montrave Estates, Fife — No. 3 Silver Medal. 



Class 19. — Collection of fungi injurious to forest trees and 

 shrubs. ist Prize: Mr H. R. Munro, Estate Office, 

 Charborough Park, Wareham, Dorset — No. 1 Silver Medal. 



Articles for Exhibition. 



1. To Messrs A. & G. Paterson, Ltd., Silverbank Sawmills, 

 Banchory, for comprehensive series of exhibits of home-grown 

 wood, and their products (embracing trees of splendid growth 

 and dimensions), graded pit-wood, railway timber and scantling, 

 and various manufactured articles including a completely 

 equipped sectional cottage— Gold Medal. 



2. To Messrs John Bisset & Sons, Ltd., Timber Merchants, 

 Aberdeen, for furnished hut of special design — No. 3 Silver 

 Medal. 



3. To Messrs Wm. Smith & Son, Nurserymen, Aberdeen, 

 for model of Bell's improved safety seed kiln — No. 2 Silver 

 Medal. 



4. To Mr John Maughan, Estate Office, Jervaulx Abbey, 

 Middleham, Yorkshire, for arbormeter for measuring the 

 diameter or quarter-girth of trees at a distance from the ground 

 — No. 3 Silver Medal. 



5. To Mr Alexander Murray, Dreghorn Mains, Colinton, for 

 lever-releasing transplanting boards — No. 3 Silver Medal. 



6. To Messrs Ben. Reid & Co., Nurserymen, Aberdeen, 

 for canvas shelter, transplanting boards and stand — No. 3 

 Silver Medal. 



7. To Messrs James Allan & Co., Cabinetmakers, Aberdeen, 

 for Queen Anne dining-room suite complete, made from home- 

 grown oak inlaid with mahogany and satinwood — No. 2 Silver 

 Medal. C. S. F. 



