2 20 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



In their annual report, Messrs Foy, Morgan & Co. state 

 that, since 1905, the cost of sawn and planed goods imported 

 into the United Kingdom has increased by 5 per cent., owing 

 to diminished capacity for production due to the gradual 

 depletion of the forests, to the increasing local demands within 

 the exporting countries, and to the opening of new markets in 

 the Colonies and elsewhere. 



Forestry at the Royal Agricultural Show, Norwich. 



The Royal Agricultural Society has offered prizes, including 

 its gold medal, for plantations and home nurseries in Norfolk, 

 Suffolk and Cambridgeshire. The judges appointed are 

 Professor Fraser Storey and Mr Alexander Slater. Prizes are 

 also to be given in a variety of classes for exhibits in the forestry 

 section of the show, Mr J. F. Annand being one of the judges. 



Exotic Conifers in Britain. 



Notwithstanding the long time that has elapsed since its publi- 

 cation, we desire to invite the attention of our readers to a 

 valuable paper on the above subject by Dr Somerville, which 

 was contributed by him to the Congress of Forestry Experimental 

 Stations, Vienna, in 1903, and was reprinted in the Journal of the 

 Board of Agriculture for December of that year (price 4d.). The 

 report, which covers 28 pages, contains extremely useful records 

 of the height and girth measurements of conifers and numerous 

 exotic trees growing in this country. Dr Somerville says that in 

 compiling his tables he has made free use of Mr Dunn's " Census," 

 published in the Jour?ial of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 volume xiv., 189 1. 



Rainfall at Inverliever. 



Mr James Whitton, Superintendent of Parks and Curator 

 of Botanic Gardens at Glasgow, has forwarded from Mr Boyd 

 records of rainfall for the year 19 10, at the two stations of 

 Cruachan and Ford on the Inverliever estate. At the former, 

 placed at a height of 280 feet above sea-level, the total fall 

 was 82 inches; January with 12 inches showing the greatest 



