go TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



i6. Report on the Forestry Exhibition held in the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society's Showyard, 

 Prestonfield, Edinburgh, 9th-i2th July 1907. 



By A Correspondent. 



The Society's seventh Annual Exhibition of Forestry, which 

 was this year held in the Highland and Agricultural Society's 

 Showyard at Prestonfield, may be fairly claimed to have been 

 the best of its kind that has yet taken place. There were 

 altogether 19 competitions for which prizes were offered, and, in 

 addition, the usual invitation was extended to members and 

 others to send articles for Exhibition only. In the competitive 

 department there was only one section in which there was no 

 entry ; in eight there was only one entry ; but in all the others 

 there were several entries. The Directors of the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society, as in previous years, kindly voted the sum 

 of ;!{^2o for prizes to be awarded for home-grown timber, and the 

 Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society offered a large number of 

 medals as prizes in the other competitions, besides authorising 

 the Judges to recommend medals or other awards for interesting 

 exhibits not sent for competition. 



The prizes offered for timber were distributed over 4 

 competitions, in which there were 16 entries. The competitors 

 were the Duke of Roxburghe, the Earl of Mansfield, Captain 

 Stirling of Keir, Mr J. A. Stirling of Kippendavie, Mr Bryce 

 Allan of Aros, Sir Duncan E. Hay, Bart, of Smithfield and 

 Haystoun, and Mr H. J. Younger of Benmore. The timber 

 exhibited in all the competitions was exceptionally good, and was 

 generally admitted to have been the best yet shown at any of the 

 Exhibitions. The Scots pine, larch and spruce planks that 

 were awarded the first prize in the first competition were unique 

 in quality and dimensions, but all the lots were of a very high 

 standard. The second competition, which was for planks of 

 three coniferous timber-trees other than those in Competition I., 

 embraced planks of silver fir, Menzies spruce and Douglas 

 spruce from Scone, and of Abies nobilis, Abies aniabilis and Pinus 

 insignis from Benmore. All the boards were fine specimens, but 

 those in the second lot were specially attractive on account of their 

 novelty. In the third competition for ash, oak and elm, the oak 

 in the lots which were awarded the first and second prizes was 



