124 Agricultural Education and Forestry Exhibition , 1905. 
wood grown north of the river Trent is unsuitable for cricket 
bats and that willows grown on the Continent are also unsuit- 
able for this purpose. Here, at any rate, appears to be a 
product which we can grow in perfection at home, and when 
the world-wide demand for cricket bats in all British colonies 
is considered, this fact should be used to its full advantage by 
the landowner. 1 The Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 
also sent specimens of willow for cricket bats, as well as bottles 
of wood-pulp in process of manufacture. 
The Earl of Yarborough exhibited hand-specimens of 157 
species of woods grown on the Brocklesby and Manby estates 
in Lincolnshire, as well as a number of photographs of woods 
and plantations, of all ages, from one year to 120 years old. 
These plantations were commenced in 1787 and are still 
continued; so that in 119 years, 23,260,887 trees have been 
planted on these estates, being an average of 195,469 plants 
per annum. As these woods extend over about 5,000 acres, 
and the oldest woods are mature, about 50 acres of them are 
now cut annually, the cleared areas being regularly re-planted. 
It would be of the greatest value to British foresters if a 
statistical account of these interesting woods were published, 
showing the species grown, either pure or mixed, the cost of 
the plantations and of their maintenance, and the financial 
returns from the thinnings and final fellings. The cost of all 
operations intended merely for amenity or ornament should 
not be included in the cost of the economic woods. As Lord 
Yarborough has now, I believe, the only extensive high forest 
of mixed woods in Britain, in which all ages of trees, from 
mere seedlings up to maturity, are represented, such a work 
wmuld compare with that of the Duke of Bedford for his 
agricultural property, and would be of inestimable value. 
Some interesting photographs of large conifers were 
exhibited by Mr. F. S. W. Cornwallis, of Linton Park, 
Maidstone. The data given are as follows : — 
Species 
Age 
in years 
Height 
Girth at 
chest-height 
Abies concolor .... 
44 
87 
ft. in. 
11 7 
,, Albertiana 
44 
72 
5 8 
Sequoia gigantea 
44 
81 
12 
4 
Abies nobilis .... 
59 
83 
n 
( 
8 
,, cephalonica . 
59 
73 
11 
0 
Sequoia semperyirens 
61 
68 
12 0 
Pinus excelsa .... 
62 
64 
9 0 
,, Austriaca 
64 
83 
9 
0 
1 See article on “ The East Anglian Timber Willow ” at page 19 of this 
Volume. 
