122 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



the Forest Academy of Tharandt in Saxony ; and the Forestry 

 Department of the University of Munich. 



The report which we now have the honour to present is 

 <^ivided into three parts. Part I. sums up our recommendations 

 on the several matters mentioned in the first paragraph of the 

 remit. In Part II. our conclusions as to the uses which the 

 Demonstration Area may serve are extended with special 

 reference to education. Part III. deals with the question of 

 the further steps to be taken for the promotion of silviculture 

 in Scotland after the said area has been acquired. 



Attached to the report is a Note on Forest Education in 

 Germany by the three members of the Committee who visited 

 that country, recording some general conclusions drawn from 

 what they saw. We have also prepared a map illustrating the 

 relative amount of existing woodland in the various districts of 

 Scotland. 



Part I. — Demonstration Forest Area. 



I. Location, Size and Character. — The area should contain 

 at least 4000 acres, including, if possible, 2000 acres already 

 under wood. The plantable land might with advantage, for 

 the purpose of demonstration, amount to, say, i 0,000 acres ; but 

 such an extent, combined with the necessary growing woods, 

 may be difficult to secure. 



The area should be situated in a district suitable for 

 afforestation and near existing woodlands. These woodlands 

 would not only be valuable for comparison, but blocks of them 

 might, by arrangement with their proprietors, be temporarily 

 included in the working-plan of the forest to fill up gaps in the 

 rotation. 



It should be near a station on a main line of railway and 

 reasonably accessible from the teaching centres and from all 

 parts of Scotland, esj^ecially the districts in which are found 

 the bulk of the existing woodlands and the largest afforestable 

 areas. 



Variety is desirable in elevation, as])ect and soil. But the 

 bulk of the area should lie below 1000 feet ; a southern aspect 

 should not predominate ; and while as little as possible of 

 the soil should be unsuitable for forestry, the area should 

 include only so much land fit for agriculture as is required 

 for the service of the forest. It is, however, desirable, in our 



