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" 3. Ash does not thrive well, .for reasons which are now 

 under investigation. 



"4. Experiments with artificial manure in the Nursery did 

 not lead to any results, except that they produced in the 

 following year a vigorous growth of grass. 



"5. Douglas Fir, especially the quick-growing Oregon variety, 

 is easily thrown by wind when young, unless most thoroughly 

 protected, while Sitka Spruce has so far not been injured. 



"A well-appointed building* was erected [in Oxford], partly in 

 1906-7 and partly in 1908-9, by the generosity of St. John's 

 College, one wing being occupied by School of Rural Economy, 

 and the other by the School of Forestry." 



* For the poem " Struthio. Lament of the Forestry Ostrich," on the 

 sculptured crest which is perched on the outside of the building, see the 

 Oxford Magazine for Nov. 26, 1908. 



