lO TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICUI.TURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr M'Hattie. — "Yes, because in forestry continuity of policy 

 is absolutely imperative. Tinis is no new idea. I might 

 direct your attention to Perthshire, Ross-shire and Inverness- 

 shire. There you have many hundreds of men who find suitable 

 and constant work in afforestation. I should like you to bear 

 in mind the strong feeling that it would keep the people on the 

 land, to the advantage alike of the people and the nation." 



Sir H. Maxwell. — "It is difficult for the private owners to 

 provide sufficient salary for a trained forester on comparatively 

 small areas." 



Mr M'Hattie. — " I think even now you have splendid forests 

 in this country for starting this operation, and the sooner it is 

 started the better." 



Dr Borthwick, in answer to a question by the Secretary for 

 Scotland as to whether purchase or a lease would be best 

 for a demonstration area, said that personally he thought 

 purchase was preferable, but he would not go the length of 

 saying that a lease was impossible. The one was preferable ; 

 the other was workable. 



Mr M'Kinnon Wood. — " What length of lease would you 

 desiderate ? " 



Dr Borthwick. — "From loo to 120 years. I know this is 

 not regarded as a business proposition." 



Mr M'Kinnon Wood. — "Would you consider a 10 years' 

 lease or a 20 years' lease?" 



Dr Borthwick. — " Nothing like that would do." 



Mr M'Kinnon Wood. — "Can you express any opinion about 

 hardwoods ?" 



Dr Borthwick. — " I think hardwoods in the south and 

 the Lowlands are of very great importance. In connection with 

 large holdings and estates, a great quantity of useful and valuable 

 ash and other hardwoods can be grown of a quality better than 

 anything that can be imported." 



Mr M'Kinnon Wood. — "Would you consider it a satisfactory 

 demonstration area where there are practically no hardwoods?" 



Dr Borthwick. — " No, I consider that, to be in every way 

 satisfactory, it should contain hardwoods as well as conifers."^ 



Mr Macdonald said : — " We are fortunate in having at the 



^ An ideal area would contain both. If such an area is unobtainable, the 

 best alternative |!would be to have a coniferous and a hardwood area, in 

 different districts. — A. W. B. 



