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Agriculturists will note with satisfaction that teaching of this 
kind has an important bearing upon the future of their great 
industry. 
III. BRITISH FORESTRY. 
This department followed closely the lines of the Forestry 
Exhibitions of the two previous years at Park Royal. It was 
organised with the expert assistance of members of the Council 
of the Royal English Arboricultural Society. Mr. George 
Marshall again kindly undertook the personal superintendence 
of the staging of the exhibits, and rendered valuable assistance 
as Steward during the Show. It will be unnecessary to 
describe in detail the whole of the exhibits, as many of them 
have been referred to in previous Reports. Attention will 
therefore be mainly directed to the more novel of the exhibits 
at Derby. 
Immediately in front of the Exhibition building, open 
ground space was devoted to choice forest and ornamental 
trees and shrubs from the nurseries of Messrs. Dicksons, Ltd., 
of Chester, Messrs. Fisher, Son & Sibray, Ltd., of Handsworth, 
Sheffield, and Messrs. Kent & Brydon, of Darlington. Messrs. 
Dickson sent a collection of conifers, and specimens of their 
new golden variety of the Cornish elm (JJlmus cornubiensis 
Dicksonii). The foliage is a fine bright gold, and the colour 
is stated to be retained until very late in the autumn, and 
not to burn in the sun. The collection of Messrs. Fisher, 
Son & Sibray consisted of hardy forest and ornamental trees, 
including a silver fir from the island of Saglialien, the giant 
gold and silver D imorphanthus from Manchuria, and the 
Japanese umbrella pine ( ' Sciadojntys verticillata). They 
showed also young oak, birch, sycamore, and other forest trees, 
lifted from the open ground, to illustrate the stout, sturdy 
growth of such trees when given more room in the nursery 
rows than is usually given in general cultivation. Messrs. 
Kent & Brydon sent a collection of choice shrubs for forest 
and estate planting. 
The Duke of Northumberland sent exhibits illustrating 
technical points in forestry. An outside plot was occupied 
with young trees showing the German method of sylvicul- 
tural mixing, light-demanding and shade-bearing trees having 
each their proper positions. The number of trees per acre 
and the method of mixing may be varied according to circum- 
stances ; but in the scheme illustrated the total number of trees 
per acre would be 4,840, the mixture being as follows : — 
(a) An outer row of beech for shelter. 
(b) A second row containing a fair sprinkling of sycamore as a wind- 
resisting tree. 
(c) Oak, 9 ft. apart, for the permanent crop. 
