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Forestry  Exhibition  at  Gloucester. 
a plantation  at  Ketford,  Dymock,  which  gained  the  silver 
medal  in  one  of  the  plantation  competitions.  This  plantation 
was  made  nineteen  years  ago  with  four-year-old  plants,  and 
averaged  800  poles  to  the  acre.  The  poles  measured  about 
45  ft.  in  length,  from  the  butt  to  a point  near  the  tip,  where 
they  were  2 in.  in  diameter,  the  total  length  of  the  trees 
being  about  50  ft. 
There  were  three  exhibits  illustrating  the  different  rates 
of  growth  and  varying  qualities  of  the  wood  of  Scots  Pine, 
grown  under  varied  conditions  of  soil  and  climate. 
Mr.  M.  P.  Price  had  taken  great  pains  to  collect  a most 
interesting  series  of  boards  and  sections  as  follows  : — 
A.  Dantzic  fir,  imported  from  Dantzic,  showing  coarse 
grain  and  large  but  sound  knots.  Mr.  Price  states  that  such 
timber  is  of  chief  value  for  beams,  rafters,  and  sills. 
B.  Section  of  trunk  of  Scots  Pine  brought  by  Mr.  Price 
from  the  forests  of  the  Ulea  river,  in  Finland  (lat.  64°  50').  This 
tree  grew  on  loose  porous  sand. 
C.  First  Archangel  Redwood,  imported  from  Archangel, 
showing  the  finest  quality  of  Scots  Pine  available  ; used  for 
first-class  joinery  work. 
D.  Boards  and  sections,  cut  from  Scots  Pine  grown  on 
red  clay  in  the  Severn  Vale  : open-grained,  sappy,  and  knotty  ; 
used  as  boarding  and  rafters  for  sheds,  and  for  estate  purposes. 
E.  Specimens  of  Scots  Pine,  grown  on  the  old  red  sand- 
stone in  Monmouthshire  : coarse,  open  and  sappy  ; considered 
by  Mr.  Price  to  equal  imported  3rd  Archangel. 
From-  Witley  Court  there  were  four  sets  of  boards  of 
Scots  Pine  : — 
Tears 
old 
Crop,  soil,  and 
situation 
Width  of 
plank 
Heartwood 
Sapwood 
A 
125 
Pure  crop  ; on  light 
sand,  gravelly  sub- 
soil ; low  altitude. 
27  in. 
21  in.  wide, 
64  rings. 
3J  in.  wide 
on  each  side, 
58  rings. 
B 
130 
Mixed  with  beech ; 
sandy  soil  o v e r 
gravel ; 900  feet  alti- 
tude, exposed  hill. 
15i  in. 
10|in.wide, 
68  rings. 
2i  in.  wide 
on  each  side, 
60  rings. 
C 
95 
Pure  crop  ; deep 
sand  ; 250  feet  alti- 
tude. 
23^  in. 
6J  in.  wide, 
33  rings. 
8|  in.  wide 
on  each  side, 
61  rings. 
D 
53 
Mixed  with  oak 
and  spruce  ; clay 
soil  ; low  altitude. 
13i  in. 
6 in.  wide, 
22  rings. 
3i  in.  wide 
on  each  side, 
23  rings. 
A -was  a remarkably  fine  board  with  deep  red  heartwood  ; B a good  board 
with  bright  red  heartwoodi;  C and  D had  developed  little  heartwood,  that  of 
D being  very  dull  in  colour, 
