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might induce more exhibits, and it would eliminate a 



certain amount of inferior stuff: as under present 



conditions some bad planks of one variety are 



included in an exhibit which otherwise could not be 



shown. 



In conclusion, the judges wish to express their thanks to 



the local committee, appointed by the Northern branch of the 



Society, for the very efficient help they rendered. 



The committee was composed as follows: — James A. 

 Gossip, nurseryman, Inverness ; Daniel Scott, wood merchant, 

 Darnaway ; William Mackenzie, forester, Novar ; John MacBean, 

 forester, Balmacaan ; John Macdonald, wood merchant, 

 Inverness; John Macdonald, jun., wood merchant, Inverness. 



12. Detailed Report on the Forestry Section in the 

 Scottish National Exhibition, Glasgow, organised 

 by the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, May 

 to November 1911. 



By Matthew Feaks, Forester, Benmore. 



Following the precedent of Edinburgh in 1908, the executive 

 of the Scottish National Exhibition, held in Glasgow in 191 1, 

 allotted to the Society free of charge a suitable site for a Forestry 

 exhibit; and a pavilion in which to house the articles requiring 

 protection having been rented from Messrs F. D. Cowieson and 

 Co., Glasgow, an excellent collection was brought together, 

 which proved a source of much interest to visitors to the 

 Exhibition. 



The exhibits in the various classes were as follows : — 



Class 1.— Young trees with rootlets, showing the resulls of 

 various methods of transplanting. 



W. Steuart Fothringham, Esq. of Murthly, Perthshire, sent 

 young larch plants showing the position of roots in proper and 

 improper transplanting. Mr Donald Grant, forester, Fersit, 

 Tulloch, sent young Sitka spruce plants showing the results of 

 planting on the Belgian system, and in the ordinary way by 

 notching. Those planted on the Belgian system are twice the 

 height of the others. 



From the Benmore estate, H. J. Younger, Esq., exhibited 



