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Class II. 



The best young Plantation, mainly of Conifers, exceeding 

 ten years and not exceeding twenty years. 



No. I Silver Medal. Brig.-Gen. Stirling, Ardchullary Estate. 



Class IV. 



The best young Plantation, mainly of Conifers, not exceeding 

 ten years of age, and not less than five acres in extent. 

 Confined to Estates having more than 300 acres of Woods. 

 No. I Silver Medal. The Earl of Moray, Doune Estate. 



Class V. 



The best young Plantation, mainly of Conifers, exceeding 

 ten years and not exceeding twenty years. 



No. I Silver Medal. The Duke of Atholl, K.T., etc., 

 Dunkeld Estate. 



Class VII. 



The best young Plantation, mainly of Hardwoods, not 

 exceeding thirty-five years of age, and not less than two acres 

 in extent. 



No. I Silver Medal. Brig.-Gen. Stirling, Keir Estate. 



These awards were adopted. 



Dr BoRTHWicK, on behalf of the Judges, said that was the 

 first occasion on which entries had been made in the class for 

 hardwoods, which was a significant fact, showing that most 

 of their plantations were coniferous or softwoods. The fact 

 that a great many of the plantations were under ten years of 

 age showed that planting had been taking place within the last 

 ten years, while the absence of plantations over twenty and 

 under forty years of age might or might not indicate that 

 many of them had disappeared for pit-wood. Referring to the 

 Dunkeld plantation, consisting of hybrid larch and Douglas 

 fir, Dr Borthwick remarked that hitherto nothing had been able 

 to touch the Douglas fir in rate of growth, but the hybrid larch 

 had far outstripped it. In fact, the Douglas fir was completely 

 suppressed and outgrown by this marvellous new addition to 

 their forest flora. It was growing strongly, luxuriantly, and 



