318 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
of several areas of land near Cambridge, one of which could doubtless be 
bought for such a purpose, and similar facilities could probably be secured 
near Edinburgh and other centres of instruction. 
20. We have stated that we consider it necessary to have ‘‘ Example Plots” 
in connection with the universities and other centres of instruction, as well as 
two large State Demonstration Areas ; and it may be well here to explain why 
both are required. The Example Plots should embrace a comparatively small 
area, and comprise an arboretum or collection of specimen trees, and also an 
area devoted to the experimental planting and growth of trees in masses up to 
a certain age. Such an area cannot, from the very nature of the objects aimed 
at, be expected to yield a profit. . . . Forest students from the universi- 
ties and others would spend a week or two at a time, or longer, in the 
Demonstration Forest; but they and the lecturer also require an area close at 
hand, to which resort can be more frequently made. 
36. Our conclusions may be summarised as follows :— 
We recommend— 
(6) . . . that Example Plots, as defined in paragraph 15, be provided 
in connection with each of these centres (Cambridge and Oxford), and with 
Edinburgh. 
The italics in the above extracts are mine. 
A perusal of the above extracts leaves no doubt that the Com- 
mittee intended each teaching centre to have its own “ Example 
Plots” or Forest Garden (as I prefer to call it), and that they in- 
tended these gardens to be “ close at hand,” so that frequent visits 
to them might be made. It is, indeed, essential that lectures should 
be “illustrated” by means of such gardens; because in regard to 
most of the subjects dealt with by the lecturer, clear and abiding 
ideas cannot be imparted by means of class-room lectures alone, 
nor otherwise than by frequent visits with the lecturer (or without 
him in any spare time the students may find) to some place where 
practical illustrations may be seen. Students must make them- 
selves thoroughly familiar with the appearance at different 
seasons of the year, and with the rate and manner of develop- 
ment in crown and root, of the various species up to the age at 
which they are to be found in the Garden. They must also be 
familiar with the behaviour during youth of the various species 
when grown in mixture, and with their effect on each other. 
They should also do nursery work, planting and direct sowing, 
with their own hands. 
The time of students is usually very fully occupied. They 
have many lectures to attend in addition to those given by the 
teacher of Sylviculture, so that excursions to a distance cannot 
