THE FORESTRV EXHIBITION AT DUMFRIES, I03 



Thomas Sharpe, Monreith, a neat box made of finely marked 

 Scots pine grown in Strathspey. 



In the non-competitive section, the Society exhibited a 

 collection of micro-photographic slides of plant tissue ; while the 

 Forestry Department of the West of Scotland Agricultural 

 College sent a large collection of tools and implements (mostly 

 German) used in forestry ; botanical and technological specimens 

 of our common woodland trees ; hand specimens of the chief 

 kinds of British timber; and examples of damage to larch by 

 Black game. The Duke of Buccleuch sent from his Langholm 

 Estate a cross section through the butt of a Douglas fir, 

 showing its age and rate of growth ; creosoted and uncreosoted 

 fencing-posts of different woods, with respective weights and 

 cost of treatment, and a sample of the creosote used (with its 

 analysis); while from his Drumlanrig Estate he sent Scots fir 

 and spruce stobs, treated with naphtaline, which had stood in a 

 fence for fifteen years ; also a field gate, and plants of the 

 Colorado and the Pacific varieties of the Douglas fir. Mr Thomas 

 Sharpe, Monreith, sent specimens of the timbers of hardwoods 

 and conifers in a frame, a wire strainer, a planting spade, a 

 chain saw, and specimens of black oak taken from lake-dwellings. 

 The Marquis of Graham showed a board of Austrian pine, 7 ft. by 

 2 ft. 8 ins., cut from a tree seventy-four years old ; and Professor 

 M'Intosh, Nevay Park, Meigle, sent sections of larch timber 

 which was grown on Nevay Hill, and is noted for its durability. 

 Mr John Munro, Kingswood, Murthly, sent a collection of cones 

 and foliage of different kinds of conifers ; Mr Robert Cowan, 

 Hoddom Castle, showed cones of Corsican pine; and Major 

 Carruthers of Dormont, sent a spruce tree showing abnormal 

 "warty" growth. Mr Matthew Peaks, Benmore, exhibited a 

 collection of hand specimens of timber grown on the Benmore 

 Estate, and examples of Peziza Willkommii on young Japanese 

 larch. The Duke of Roxburghe displayed a collection of photo- 

 graphs showing a forest railway, sawmill and plant, and a 

 woodyard. Mr Kenneth M'Douall of Logan, Stranraer, showed 

 two larch trees, each about thirteen years old, taken from the 

 same plantation, and contrasting the different effects produced 

 by shelter and by exposure to high winds. Sir John Stirling- 

 Maxwell of PoUok, Bart., President of the Society, sent speci- 

 men plants of Sitka spruce, Norway spruce and Scots pine, both 

 notched and planted, showing the advantage, at high elevations 



