108 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
been paid, in well-earned wages for remunerative work, to casual 
labourers who might otherwise have swelled the ranks of the 
Unemployed.” 
A good map, prepared by Mr P. E. Martineau, whose services 
as Organising Secretary have been secured, accompanies the 
Report, and from this an excellent idea of the very large propor- 
tion of the surface of this part of the country which is covered 
by these pit-mounds and spoil-banks may be obtained. Photo- 
graphic illustrations are also given to show the transformation 
which has been effected on some of the pit-mounds by planting, 
and to prove that, though conifers and oaks do not take kindly 
to the atmospheric conditions, willows (of which a large number 
have been planted), birch, alder, and many other hardy kinds of 
trees thrive quite well under the conditions prevailing in the 
Black Country. An appeal for willow cuttings in September 
last met with a cordial response, and His Majesty the King 
has shown his interest in the Association’s work by a donation 
of twenty thousand of these from Windsor Forest. 
The Honorary Consulting Forester to the Association is 
Professor W. R. Fisher, B.A., Oxford, and the Secretary is 
Mr Hubert Stone, Bracebridge Street, Birmingham. 
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THE DENBIGHSHIRE SCHEME FOR AN EXPERIMENTAL STATION. 
Under the title 4 Word on Forestry and the Denbighshire 
Scheme for an Experimental Station, the leading features of the 
above scheme have been set forth by Mr John Mahler, of Chirk, 
in a small pamphlet, published in September 1905.1 
After some references to the finding of the Departmental 
Committee on Forestry (1902), relating among other things to 
the suitability of the British climate for timber-growing, the 
likelihood of a shortage in our timber imports in the near future, 
the necessity for additional facilities for theoretical instruction 
and practical demonstration in forestry, the demand for demon- 
stration areas under State or corporate control, and the desir- 
ability of illustrating collegiate instruction in forestry by means of 
1 Oswestry : Woodall, Minshall, Thomas & Co., Caxton Press, 
