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success of the Exhibition ; and, in particular, we would 
especially thank the expert representatives of the contributing 
colleges and other institutions who attended during the Show, 
and whose verbal explanations did so much to render the 
exhibits intelligible, interesting, and useful to visitors. 
J. Bowen-Jones. 
St. Mary’s Court, Shrewsbury. 
BRITISH FORESTRY. 
The collection of forestry exhibits at Park Royal this year 
was in a general way fully equal to that of 1904. Where the 
exhibition of 1904 excelled was in the magnificent collection 
of coniferous plants from Devonshire, sent by the Hon. Mark 
Rolle. These plants, after the Show, were presented by Mr. 
Rolle to the Royal English Arb or icu Rural Society and were 
immediately transferred to Englefield Green, Surrey, where, 
during the autumn of 1904, they were planted out temporarily 
in a nursery on the Bagsliot sand. The young conifers, about 
2,000 in number and consisting of 150 species, have made good 
growth at Englefield Green, and have now been transferred to 
Tubney, near Oxford. Here, Magdalen College has most kindly 
offered a suitable site, on which they will be planted when 
large enough. Meanwhile they are in the College Forest 
Nursery at Tubney. Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., of Colesborne, has 
also promised 200 species of exotic trees, and it is hoped that 
others will help by giving plants ; so that a fine Geographical 
Arboretum will eventually be established at Tubney. 
In 1905, good collections of plants and shrubs were 
exhibited by Messrs. Kent & Brydon, of Darlington, and by 
Messrs. Fisher, Son & Sibray, Ltd., of Handsworth, Sheffield. 
Though not forming part of the Forestry Department, other 
collections of trees and shrubs were dotted about the Show- 
yard for picturesque effect, and were shown by Messrs. Little 
& Ballantyne, of Carlisle ; Messrs. William Cutbush & Son, of 
Highgate ; and Mr. L. R. Russell, of Richmond, Surrey. The 
Country Gentlemen’s Association sent a collection of forest 
tree seeds and cones. There were several interesting exhibits 
of willows, including osiers of one, two, and three years’ 
growth from Tatton Park, Cheshire, by Earl Egerton of 
Tatton, and timber-willows, grown in Cambridgeshire, by 
Mr. Albert Pell, of Hazelbeach, Northamptonshire. Messrs. 
John Wisden & Co., of 21 Cranbourne Street, Leicester Square, 
sent a useful exhibit illustrating the manufacture of cricket 
bats made from willows with open and close bark. The close 
bark denotes more slowly grown and harder wood than that 
of the open bark willow, and the former is used for cricket 
bats of the best quality. It has also been stated that willow 
