FORESTRY EXHIBITION AT PEEBLES. 87 
16. Forestry Exhibition at the Highland and Agricul- 
tural Society’s Show at Peebles, July 1906. 
By JoHN F. ANNAND, Overseer, Haystoun. 
As in former years, the Society arranged a Forestry Exhibition 
in connection with the Highland and Agricultural Society’s Show, 
which this year was held at Peebles. On the whole, both as 
regards extent and variety, the Exhibition of 1906 compared 
favourably with any of its predecessors. It was a little dis- 
appointing, however, to find that in a good forest district like 
Peeblesshire, only two of the landed proprietors in that county 
were exhibitors. ‘There were sixteen competitive sections, and 
in most of these there were several entries. 
A very important section was that in which some beautiful 
specimens of the timber of Scots pine, larch, and Norway spruce 
were shown. In this section there were eight competitors, the 
chief awards going to Sir Duncan E. Hay, Bart. of Haystoun, 
who had the first and third places, and to the Earl of Mansfield, 
who was second. The Arnott Trustees, Bandon, Co. Cork, who 
exhibited boards taken from trees of a much less age than the 
others, received a special award of a No. 2 Silver Medal in 
respect of the excellent quality of the timber and the skilful 
manner in which the boards were manufactured. A _ similar 
competition was that between the exhibitors of specimens of the 
timber of any three coniferous timber-trees, excluding the above- 
named sorts; and in this competition the first prize was won by 
the Duke of Buccleuch for a very excellent exhibit of silver fir, 
Menzies spruce, and Weymouth pine boards, while the specimens 
of Weymouth pine, Cembran pine, and black American spruce 
sent by Mr Steuart Fothringham of Murthly made a very good 
second. 
Of no less interest and importance were the competitions in 
which specimens of the timber of broad-leaved trees were shown. 
One section was restricted to oak, ash, and Scots elm, and here 
again Sir D. E. Hay took the first and third prizes, the Earl of 
Mansfield being second. The oak and ash in the first and the 
elm in the second prize lots were of exceedingly fine quality. 
The elm in the third prize lot was somewhat faulty, the high 
average of this lot being due to the superior quality of the oak 
and ash. 
