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practically no State forests which have been made the objects 

 of regular organisation for long periods of years. 



Almost everything we have in the way of forests in 

 Scotland is the result of private enterprise. Many of the 

 landowners in Scotland have done great things for forestry, 

 but they are always ready to admit, in fact are the first to 

 admit, that for the purposes we have in view there is one great 

 drawback ; that is, that there is no guarantee for continuity 

 of management. A private landowner, with the best intentions 

 in the world, cannot give this guarantee. This cannot be 

 gainsaid. 



I think, also, we may accept it as a fact that whatever may 

 be the case in the distant future, so far as concerns the present 

 at any rate and the near future, the development and extension 

 of forestry as an industry in this country must continue as now 

 very largely in the hands of private owners. Hence the absolute 

 necessity for having established a considerable number of 

 organised forestry estates in suitable representative districts 

 throughout the country, preferably perhaps under some State 

 department, but certainly under some body where continuity 

 of policy could be assured. Incidentally, these areas should 

 provide the best practical training ground for the men who 

 are largely to be responsible for the development and manage- 

 ment both of existing woodlands and for the new planted 

 forests, which we hope soon to see take practical shape. 



The following notes on some of the educational uses which 

 have been made of a small area of Crown woodland attached 

 to Armstrong College, and also of private woodland areas in 

 the same neighbourhood, may be of some interest to those 

 specially concerned with similar matters in Scotland. The areas 

 I propose to make a few remarks about are : — 



I. Forest Garden Plots at Cockle Park, Northumber- 

 land. 

 II. The Crown Woods of Chopwell, Co. Durham 

 (about 800 acres available and under a working- 

 scheme). 

 III. Some excellent private woodlands on Tyneside 

 and in Cumberland. 



Regarding the locality generally, it may be stated that 

 satisfactory growth of the more valuable hardwoods is only 



