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planted 4 feet apart, showing side branches much developed, 

 which would be expected to produce knotty timber like a 

 sample exhibited; and a similar tree taken from a plantation 

 where the plants had been put in 3 feet apart, showing side 

 branches with small development, which would be expected to 

 yield in course of time clean timber similar to a board exhibited. 

 These two specimens were further illustrated by diagrams of 

 cross sections showing the strong branches projecting a long 

 way into the timber from the centre in the one case and a very 

 short distance in the other. Examples of the damage caused 

 by too heavy thinning were also exhibited in this section by 

 the Duke of Northumberland. 



Mr Alex. Pollock, Tarbolton, sent a set of rustic chairs made 

 from small oak-wood grown on the banks of the Ayr, and the 

 Earl of Mansfield an interesting exhibit of turnery, which was 

 entered under the competition for the best methods of utilising 

 home-grown small wood. Both exhibitors, however, omitted to 

 send samples of the round wood from which the exhibits were 

 manufactured. — Mr Alex. Murray, Forester, Murthly, showed a 

 collection of fungi injurious to forest trees and shrubs ; while the 

 Duke of Roxburghe sent samples of young trees damaged 

 by squirrels and voles, with stuffed specimens of these pests. — The 

 photographs of a forest tramway exhibited by the Duke of 

 Roxburghe, which were accompanied by a descriptive report, were 

 very interesting and instructive to practical foresters, wood 

 merchants and others connected with the transport of timber. — 

 In the general competition for any approved article either wholly 

 or mainly made of wood, Mr Willian Sinton, jun., exhibited a 

 neat plant-tub made from Jed Forest oak, and Mr Alex. Pollock 

 a rustic seat made from home-grown oak. 



In the non-competitive section of the Exhibition, Dr Borthwick, 

 the Society's Honorary Cryptogamist, had an extensive collection 

 of twigs and cones of conifers ; and he also exhibited three 

 newly-discovered fungi, of which he was kind enough to give 

 an account at the General Meeting of the Society. (See note 

 in the Proceedings of the General Meeting.) — The Society's 

 collection of sections of British timber and photo-micrograph 

 slides were again on view ; and Mr James A. Weale, timber 

 merchant, Liverpool, was kind enough to lend the photo- 

 micrographs which were exhibited at Peebles last year, and 

 were then awarded the Society's gold medal. Mr Weale's 



