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There are also specimens of abnormal growths, sections of trees 

 injured by animals, pruning and grafting specimens, etc. 



In another room are numerous articles manufactured from 

 ash, oak, beech, birch, elm, sycamore, sweet chestnut, horse 

 chestnut, hornbeam, Scots pine and other standard woods. 

 Industries such as brush-making, the manufacture of bobbins 

 and cotton reels, sports requisites, and basket ware are repre- 

 sented by special exhibits, many items being shown in different 

 stages of manufacture. This room is used a good deal for 

 informal demonstrative purposes by teachers from the various 

 handicraft centres under the London County Council. In the 

 third room on this floor are various tools and models of 

 machinery used in forestry operations and in the manipulation 

 of timber, together with numerous photographs. As it is 

 desired to make the museum as complete as possible, new 

 specimens and photographs are always acceptable. In the past 

 members of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society have been 

 very generous in presenting exhibits, and numerous specimens 

 have come from Scotland. W. D. - 



Planting Distance for Douglas Fir. 



Sir Hugh Shaw Stewart, Bart., has been good enough to send 

 us the following extract from a letter he received in March of 

 the present year, from Sir Henry Hoare, Bart, Stourhead, 

 Wiltshire : — 



" I have planted Douglas fir largely here, and by far my best 

 plantation is spaced at 8 feet. This plantation is seventeen 

 years old, and Mr Hanson, Divisional Officer for the West of 

 England, and Mr Hugh Murray, CLE., C.B.E., Assistant 

 Forestry Commissioner for England, were much impressed and 

 delighted with it. Both agreed that this seemed the correct 

 distance on first-rate soil, and sheltered situation to plant 

 Douglas. I have another plantation at 9 feet, and this has put 

 on bulk very fast, but is rougher and not so good. I had a 

 plantation of Douglas fir planted at 4 feet distance, but in a 

 snowfall two years ago I lost some 40,000 trees, which came 

 down on the top of one another in patches of ;^ to ^ an acre. 

 Their roots showed that being planted so close and forced up 

 they had not developed sufficient root anchorage to support 



