FORESTRY EXHIBITION AT STIRLING. lOI 



surpass the quality and texture of our own Scots pine for door 

 panels and window cases. For this most interesting and 

 elaborate exhibit the Judges awarded the Society's Gold Medal. 



The President of the Society, the Duke of Atholl, K.T., 

 showed a magnificent root-cut from one of his "parent" larches, 

 together with a board from the same tree. He had also 

 forwarded specimens of the common, hybrid, and Japanese 

 larches, twelve years old, illustrating the rate of growth of each 

 variety. For this exhibit a No. i Silver Medal was awarded. 



A No. 2 Silver Medal was awarded Brig.-Gen. Stirling of Keir 

 for a very good collection of exhibits, including sleepers and 

 large boards of the timber of Abies grandis. Amongst other 

 interesting exhibits were specimens illustrating the rate of 

 growth of trees ; different scantlings of timber, deals, and 

 battens ; pit-wood and railway timbers; plants, trees, and timber 

 damaged by storms, insects, animals, and fungi; and tools 

 and implements, home and foreign, used in various operations 

 connected with forestry. An outstanding exhibit in the last 

 class, and one which created a considerable amount of interest, 

 was the "Wade" portable cross-cut saw, which was driven by 

 petrol. This machine is a great improvement on the old- 

 fashioned steam-driven ones, and v/ill no doubt find its way 

 into most of the large wood-cutting yards. It was exhibited by 

 Messrs Christy & Penny, Ltd., The Outer Temple, Strand, 

 London, W.C. 



Taken as a whole the exhibition of 1921 was an unqualified 

 success. 



