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autumn wood in the concentric rings, and was of specially good 
quality, clearly showing the possibilities for timber-production in 
this country of some of the western American conifers. 
Lord Lamington sent an interesting exhibit of fencing stobs, 
creosoted by simply steeping them in an open tank; and the 
spruce, Scots pine, elm, beech, birch, and oak stobs so treated, 
which had been eleven to thirteen years in use, were in a remark- 
ably good state of preservation. 
Dr Borthwick sent a very complete and instructive set of 
herbarium specimens of British forest-trees; Mr John Smith, 
Peebles, a collection of specimen blocks of timber grown in 
Peeblesshire; Mr Gillanders, Alnwick Castle, a very complete 
set of cases of insects injurious to forest-trees; and Mr Robert 
Allan, factor, Polkemmet, sent larch stobs which were said to 
have been in use in a clay soil for forty-two years. They had 
not been treated in any way, and were in a remarkably good 
state of preservation. 
Mr Adam Spiers, timber merchant, Edinburgh, had an interest- 
ing exhibit of planks of home-grown hornbeam, walnut, and 
common and Siberian larch; and he also exhibited Scots pine 
stobs which had been in use in a fence for forty years. The 
stobs had been thoroughly seasoned, and then steeped in boiling 
coal-tar. 
Messrs Laing & Mather, Nurserymen, Kelso, very kindly 
sent, for decorative purposes, a collection of golden privet in 
tubs. These, grouped in various ways throughout the Exhibi- 
tion, had a very pleasing effect. 
The awards in the Exhibition section were as follows:—A 
Gold Medal to Mr Jas. A. Weale, and No. 1 Silver Medals to 
Sir Duncan E. Hay, Bart., Mr W. Steuart Fothringham of 
Murthly, Dr Borthwick, and Mr A. T. Gillanders. 
A new feature of the Exhibition was that on each day a lecture 
was given on some subject connected with forestry. Mr Munro 
Ferguson, M.P., gave an address on “Instruction in Sylvi- 
culture”; Sir John Stirling-Maxwell discussed “The Planting of 
Waste Land”; Mr A. D. Richardson gave a paper on “The 
Larch Disease Fungus”; and Mr J. F. Annand gave a short 
paper on the ‘Quality of Timber, and how this may be affected 
by Cultivation.” Some of the papers appear in the Zransactions. 
Altogether, the Exhibition at Peebles was a very instructive 
one. 
