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The Earl of Egmont sent a collection of ash plants, show- 
ing the growth of ash for walking sticks, and five samples of 
wood hoops, the manufacture of which is an industry in Surrey, 
Sussex, and Hants. These hoops, which are used for binding 
barrels, are made from the underwood of chestnut, ash, 
hazel, and birch. Another exhibit showed the rapid growth 
of the shoots from the stool after cutting, the increase being 
at the rate of eight feet in one year. 
Captain Ord Capper sent specimens showing the difference 
between larches grown as solitary trees and those crowded in a 
wood ; also the diseased branches of a forty-year-old conifer, 
Picea nohilis. Lady Amabel Kerr showed a magnificent plank 
from a Scotch fir, grown at Melbourne Hall, near Derby, 
which was much admired. Lord Egerton of Tatton sent the 
polished planks of different British timbers as in previous years. 
Lord Yarborough also exhibited, as before, a large and varied 
assortment of timbers, creosoted specimens, photographs, &c., 
and in addition his lordship showed some massive garden seats 
made from peeled oak branches and a garden seat formed by 
cutting partly down the trunk of a tree. 
Messrs. Remer & Co., Ltd., of Derby Road, Liverpool, 
exhibited interesting specimens of home-grown hardwoods, 
compared with specimens of similar woods grown in the 
colonies and in the United States. 
Forestry photographs were exhibited by His Majesty’s 
Commissioners of Woods and Forests, the Royal Agricultural 
College, Professor W. R. Fisher, and Messrs. Richardson & Son, 
Stamford. 
The Surveyors’ Institution sent museum specimens, and 
the Country Gentlemen’s Association, Ltd., tree seeds and seed- 
lings. Messrs. Herd Bros., of Penrith, also exhibited seedlings 
and young transplanted living forest trees. 
The section devoted to insects, diseases affecting trees, and 
the attacks of game, birds, squirrels, voles, &c. was again well 
filled. 
Mr. A. T. Gillanders (forester to the Duke of Northumber- 
land) and Mr W. B. Havelock (forester to the Earl of 
Yarborough) rendered valuable services by explaining the 
exhibits to visitors interested in forestry. 
Ernest H. Godfrey. 
Woodford, 
Harpenden, Herts. 
