88 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Messrs Thomas Tait & Sons, Ltd., Inverurie, have a most 

 interesting exhibit, viz., a series of glasses whose contents 

 show the various stages in the process of reducing imported 

 wood to bleached pulp, ready for the manufacture of paper. 

 Messrs Tait also show samples of their paper, and remind 

 us that all fibre used by them might be produced in Britain, 

 but at present they are " compelled " to go to Russia for their 

 supplies. 



Among other objects of interest, we have curiosities from 

 Murthly, Raith, and Scone. 



Mr James Rodger, Athy, shows an interesting section of 

 bog pine in good preservation ; it was found on the " floor of 

 bog," from which a deep cutting of peat had been taken many 

 years ago. 



Mr John Thomson, Balmoral, sends four very handsome 

 " carved " walking-sticks. They are made of maple grown on 

 the Balmoral Estate, and are very fine examples of hand-carving. 



Messrs J. & M. Smith, Cabinetmakers, Peebles, exhibit a 

 well-finished copy of Burns's chair, also a neat Yorkshire table ; 

 both articles are made of choice "burred" elm grown in 

 Peeblesshire. Mr Wm. Elliot, Builder, Edinburgh, sends two 

 interesting sections, cut from " elm " water-pipes, unearthed in 

 West Register Street. Specimens of bog oak, with photos, are 

 shown from Mr Aird, Woodend, Muirkirk. 



Colonel Bailey shows interesting examples of timber felled 

 by beavers, also some preserved specimens of wood found in 

 the Roman Camp at Newstead. 



Messrs Blackwood & Sons send copies of T/ie Forester {2 vols.) 

 by Dr Nisbet, also a copy of Forest Entomology by Mr A. T. 

 Gillanders. The Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society display 

 copies of the Transactions and other literature. 



Four handsome stag heads, three of them Royals, have been 

 kindly lent ; these form a very attractive feature in the decora- 

 tion of the Pavilion. 



Messrs Dicksons & Co. send five well-furnished hanging 

 baskets, which give a remarkably pleasing appearance to the 

 front of the exhibit, also some specimen conifers. Mr D. W. 

 Thomson sends a very fine collection of flowering and decorative 

 shrubs for the plot in front of the Pavilion, which has been 

 supplemented by a contribution of ornamental shrubs, etc., 

 from Mr M'Hattie. Captain Leyland, Haggerston Castle, 



