94 TRANSACTIONS OF ROVAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Messrs J. M'Gregor & Son, Tarn's Brig, Ayr, exhibited a piece 

 of oak from the cradle on which the piers of the Auld Brig 

 of Ayr was founded about 700 years ago (on loan from the 

 Corporation of Ayr), also a small table made from Scotch- 

 grown walnut, and a board of the same material. 



The British South African Company sent a collection of native 

 timbers found in Rhodesia, and samples of rubber bark and 

 prepared rubber, Mr Peter Whyte, telegraph linesman, Cale- 

 donian Railway, sent a very neat and useful folding clothes- 

 drying screen, and the model of a field-gate. Pieces of burned 

 timber from the Empire Theatre, Edinburgh, were shown by the 

 Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society. 



A rustic walk on the slope behind the pavilion was provided 

 by Mr James Whitton, Glasgow. Messrs Dicksons & Co., Edin- 

 burgh, sent a fine collection of seedling plants of broad-leaved 

 and coniferous trees and shrubs, and they also decorated the 

 ground round the pavilion with a nice collection of orna- 

 mental shrubs. Mr D. W. Thomson, Edinburgh, supplied a 

 collection of ornamental conifers and broad-leaved trees for 

 the decoration of the ground round the site of the exhibit. 



Altogether this exhibit proved a great success and was well 

 patronised by visitors. 



