86 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Class XI. — Gate for Farm or Estate Use, manufactured from 

 Oak Timber, to be hung and shown in working order with 

 fastening, unpainted. Prices, including the posts and 

 ironwork, were attached to each gate, and are here given. 

 (5 entries.) 



Silver Medal: The Earl of Yarborough, 41s. lod. Bronze 

 Medal: The Marquis of Exeter, 34s. Highly Commended: Sir 

 A. R. Cholmeley, Bart., 35s. Commended: The Earl Fitz- 

 william, 41s. The first prize gate was fitted — as were all 

 Lord Yarborough's gates — with wooden swing-fasteners and 

 wooden catches, and hung on good oak posts ; the ironwork 

 was simple, the top-band clasping the top bar 18 inches, and 

 the top crook reaching through the post with a nut at the back. 

 If all persons who are responsible for the gates on estates had 

 themselves to open them on horseback, there would soon be an 

 end to all the various sorts of iron spring- fasteners so much in 

 vogue. No fastener is so easily adjusted, and* so easy to open 

 on horseback, as the swing wooden ones so generally used in 

 parts of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. The Marquis of Exeter 

 also showed a gate made of riven oak, which attracted much 

 attention. 



Class XII. — Farm Gate made from any other Home-grown Wood, 

 unpainted. (6 entries.) 



Silver Medal: The Earl of Yarborough, Larch gate hung on 

 creosoted Spruce posts, 24s. gd. Bronze Medal : The Marquis 

 of Exeter, Larch gate, 36s. Highly Commended : The Earl of 

 Carnarvon, Larch gate, 28s. The first prize gate was similar in 

 design and fittings to the gate in the previous class, but a special 

 feature was the creosoted spruce posts, which reduced the cost 

 of the exhibit considerably, as well as showing the utilisation 

 of comparatively worthless timber. The larch of which Lord 

 Carnarvon's gate was made was of extra good quality, and 

 without a knot. Some judges would have given it the second 

 place. 



Class XIII. — Wicket or Hunting Gate, self-closing, made of 

 Home-grown Timber, to be hung and shown in working 

 order, unpainted. (5 entries.) 

 Silver Medal: The Earl of Yarborough, Spanish Chestnut 



gate on Oak posts, 24s. 6d. Highly Commended : The Marquis 



