98 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Highland and Agricultural Society's Annual Show districts has 

 been made, the sum of the statistics thus collected will be of the 

 highest interest and importance to silviculture. These statistics 

 will not only yield immediate results, by showing how the 

 silvicultural conditions vary in different parts of Scotland, but 

 they will form a very valuable basis for future study and research 

 concerning each individual plantation which has been entered 

 in the Competition. As was pointed out^ in the report of the 

 191 2 Competition, some of these plantations may improve while 

 others may deteriorate as time goes on, hence the recorded 

 classification of these plantations, together with the recorded 

 information concerning them, will afford a valuable and reliable 

 basis for the future investigator ; and if such investigations are 

 systematically made and recorded, the final result will indicate 

 the best system of management and kind of crop for each 

 locality. With this end in view, it has been decided by the 

 Council of the Society that in future the full details supplied 

 concerning the various competing plantations shall be published. 



In the 1914 Competition five nurseries were entered, two in 

 Class I. and three in Class II., while the plantations numbered 

 eight, seven in Class IV. and one in Class V. It is rather 

 significant to note that, as in 191 3, there were no entries in 

 Class VII., which is for hardwoods. 



The nurseries and plantations are given below in order of 



merit. 



N-URSERiES. — Class I. 



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