2l8 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH AREORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Since the school started thirty-two men have obtained the full 

 certificate, and two have received a partial certificate. Of the 

 thirty-two with full certificates — 



One is forester in British East Africa. 

 One is assistant pole inspector, Postal Department. 

 Four are woodmen in Crown Forests. 

 One is foreman of the school gang in Dean Forest. 

 Twelve are labourers in Dean Forest. 

 Nine are foresters or woodmen on private estates. 

 One is taking a further course of instruction at Armstrong 

 College, and is likely to go as forester to East Africa. 

 One is managing his mother's farm, his father having 



recently died. 

 Two obtained situations on leaving the school but left 

 them, one for farm work, while the other is now in 

 a timber merchant's office. 

 Of the two men who obtained partial certificates, one is 

 employed in the woods on a private estate, and the other has 

 left forest work. 



The new building has proved very suitable. The school 

 nursery is now in full working order, and is fully stocked. The 

 Abbotswood experimental plantations have been completed. 



A visit was paid to the school by Mr Hutchins, chief 

 conservator of the British East Africa Forest Department. As 

 a result of his visit one passed student was appointed by the 

 Secretary of State for the Colonies as forester at ;^i2o, rising by 

 annual increments of p/^io to ;^20o. The names of two other 

 students were registered with a view to offers of employment 

 as vacancies occur. 



The Larch Sawfly. 



The Lake District correspondent of The Times reports that 

 the larch sawfly, which some years ago did such serious 

 damage to the larch plantations in Cumberland, has again made 

 its appearance in the Lake district. The pest has proved most 

 destructive to the larch forests in the United States {cf. p. 222), 

 and in Northern Europe, and its re-appearance in Cumberland 

 naturally causes some alarm. The fly was first noticed on 

 20th May, and the larvae were in June hatching out rapidly 

 and defoliating the trees. 



Reference is invited to articles on this destructive fly on p. 43 

 of vol. XX., and on p. 42 of vol. xxiv. 



