78 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



attracted considerable attention during the Exhibition, and the 

 rings have been counted by all classes of visitors. The section 

 is accompanied by photographs showing the two parent trees as 

 they stood. 



Captain Cameron of Lochiel displays a very instructive set 

 of specimens comprising six sections of larch, grown on 

 various soils and situations, and varying in age from 20 to 

 40 years. He draws particular attention to the advantages of 

 judicious thinning in the culture of larch, giving samples which 

 have been grown 3 feet apart without thinning, and others 

 from the same plantation which have been thinned, showing 

 the superiority of the latter, both as regards increment and 

 quality. He also emphasises the desirability of planting larch 

 on suitable soils only, and illustrates tMs by two sections from 

 plantations 23 years old. One gives a height of 37 ft. 3 ins., 

 and girth over bark at 4 ft., 33 ins. The other measures 7 ft. 

 7 ins. in height, the girth over bark at base being 5^ ins. Two 

 specimens of naturally grown Scots pine from Lochiel Forest are 

 also shown, which are of splendid quality, and a section of 

 naturally grown oak 80 years of age from a closely grown 

 plantation, showing how the increment is retarded through lack 

 of thinning. The collection is accompanied by a detailed report 

 which gives full particulars of the exhibit, and is worthy of 

 further consideration. 



In the class showing specimens of different kinds of timber, 

 we have a unique collection of 6^ varieties from Murthly, 

 polished and neatly mounted in a frame. The Marquis of 

 Zetland, Kerse, shows a good cedar board, 14^ feet in length 

 and over 2 feet in width. A section of this is polished. Scone 

 is well represented in this class, showing a fine cedar plank from 

 Kenwood, 12 feet long by 3^ feet in width, and a fine walnut 

 plank 8 feet by 2^. These have formed an attractive feature 

 in front of the Pavilion. From the same exhibitor comes a set 

 of boards in 7 feet lengths, including Scots fir 2^ feet in width, 

 larch 2| feet, both exceptionally clean, of good colour and of 

 excellent quality ; Menzies spruce over 2 feet, elm the same, 

 and a nice piece of ash about i J feet wide. 



Mr A. W. Inglis of Loganburn shows a good set of recently 

 introduced timber, in 5 feet lengths. The top half is cut 

 obliquely, and the boles are also cut longitudinally through 

 the centre, thus giving every opportunity for studying the 



