NURSERY AND PLANTATION COMPETITION. I I I 



lo years of age, and not less than 5 acres in extent. Confined 

 to estates having more than 300 acres of woods (Prize, A Silver 

 Medal). Class V. — For the best young plantation mainly of 

 conifers exceeding 10 years and not exceeding 20 years (Prize, 

 A Silver Medal). Class VI. — For the best young plantation 

 mainly of conifers exceeding 20 years and not exceeding 40 years 

 (Prize, A Silver Medal). Class VII. — For the best young 

 plantation mainly of hardwoods not exceeding 35 years of age, 

 and not less than 2 acres in extent (Prize, A Silver Medal). 



" Conditions. — i. Each competitor must pay an entry fee of 

 los. 6d. for his first entry and an additional 5s. for each subse- 

 quent entry. 2. The whole plantation must be entered if all of 

 the same age. 3. The Judges will be empowered to withhold 

 prizes in cases of insufficient merit. They will also be empowered 

 to award a Bronze Medal for those subjects which are not prize 

 winners but are above the average standard of excellence." 



The entries taken as a whole were of a high order of merit, 

 and the Judges found it necessary to recommend special and 

 merit prizes, as a glance at the prize list^ will show. 



A significant fact, and one to which attention must be called, 

 was that there were no entries in Class VII. for hardwood 

 plantations. 



Ten subjects were entered by six estates. These were made 

 up of three nurseries — two in Class II. and one in Class I. — and 

 seven plantations. 



Sir James Bell, Bart., Montgreenan, entered three plantations 

 which had been formed on previously uncultivated boggy peat. 

 The conspicuous success which has attended the methods 

 employed to bring such an area under tree-growth was such 

 that the Judges found it necessary to put this entry into a class 

 by itself, as it was so wholly unique in character that there was 

 nothing to compare it with. Mr Bogie, land steward, Mont- 

 greenan, under whose supervision the planting operations were 

 carried out, has kindly supplied the following account of the 

 methods he employed : — 



" Afforestation at Montgreenan on Moss Lands. 



" Operations in connection with the scheme of afforestation at 

 Montgreenan were begun on 3rd January 19 10, when a start 



^ See " Proceedings," p. 38. 



