NURSERY AND PLANTATION COMPETITION. lOI 



KiNALDY (No. 2). 



Larch . . 22, 20, 16, 22, 14I-, 20 ins. 

 Scots pine . 15, 19, 17, 24, 15, 22 ,, 



As so many details of the competing plantations in this 

 year's Show district have already been brought together, it is 

 felt that any further information concerning them would be 

 very desirable. 



If systematic measurements could be obtained at definite 

 periods, for example, when each plantation reached the age 

 of 10, 15 and 20 years, and if the results were published in 

 the Transactions of the Society, a considerable amount of 

 valuable statistics would soon be collected. 



A schedule with instructions regarding the method of making 

 the measurements could easily be drawn up, and this could 

 be obtained by the various proprietors who were willing to 

 co-operate. The printing of such statistics in the Transactions 

 of the Society would not only form a permanent record of 

 these plantations, but in time it would afford a valuable means 

 of comparing the growth of one and the same species of tree 

 in all parts of Scotland. 



In conclusion, the Judges have to express their warmest thanks 

 to the Secretary for the great amount of assistance he rendered 

 them in their work. 



To the proprietors and foresters of all the estates visited the 

 thanks of the Judges are also due, for the kind and prompt way 

 in which they made arrangements to suit the convenience of the 

 Judges on the necessarily very short intimation of their intended 

 visit. 



A. W. BORTHWICK ) r J 



G. U. Macdonald j -^ " ^ ^' 



