I02 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



14. The Forestry Exhibition at Dumfries. 



The tenth annual exhibition of Forestry, organised by the 

 Society in the Highland and Agricultural Society's Show-yard, 

 was held at Dumfries from 19th to 22nd July 1910. The 

 committee were successful in bringing together a comparatively 

 large and interesting collection of exhibits, and they were also 

 fortunate in procuring a site near the main entrance to the show, 

 which made the exhibition more accessible and attractive to the 

 ordinary visitor, and secured for it a large share of attention. 



An outstanding feature of this show was the large and 

 excellent assortment of home-grown timbers in the competitive 

 section. The specimens of both broad-leaved and coniferous 

 timber were of such excellence that they could not have failed 

 to convince all who saw them that our soil and climate are 

 capable of producing timber of unrivalled quality. 



The competitors in the timber sections were : — Mr J. Ernest 

 Kerr of Harviestoun, Dollar; the Duke of Buccleuch (Langholm 

 Estate) ; the Marquis of Graham ; Mr Maxwell of Munches ; 

 Mr Barbour of Bonskeid : the Duke of Abercorn ; the Earl of 

 Mansfield; Mr Younger of Benmore; and Sir Herbert Maxwell 

 of Monreith. 



Mr Fred Moon, Bowmont Forest, submitted reports, with 

 specimens, of damage done by the pine weevil {Hylobius abietis) 

 and by Strophosomus coryli. Farm gates were exhibited by 

 the Duke of Buccleuch, Mr James Cruikshank, Port ErroU, 

 and Mr Alexander Lowe, Lockerbie House. More ornamental 

 gates were shown by Mr Lowe and Mr Robert Cowan, Hoddom. 

 Self-closing wicket-gates were also exhibited by Messrs Cowan 

 and Lowe and the Earl of Mansfield ; and the two last named 

 competed with full-size sections of rustic fencing. Mr Hugh R. 

 Munro, assistant forester, Murthly, was the only competitor 

 who entered a collection of fungi. Amongst new or improved 

 implements or instruments exhibited were: A wire strainer, by 

 Mr Robert Cowan; photographs of tackle used to get timber 

 out of a glen on to the public road, and a machine nursery hoe, 

 by Mr Fred Moon ; also a gate-opener, by Mr W. H. Whellens, 

 Comlongon Nursery. In the competition for any approved 

 article either wholly or mainly made of wood, Mr Lowe 

 exhibited a rustic summer-house ; Mr Alexander Pollock, 

 Tarbolton, three pairs of rustic oak garden vases, and Mr 



