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GENERAL REPORT OF THE JUDGES OF GROUP VI. 15 leaves, were large fruits. Both barks and leaves appeared from several countries, some of the exhibits accompanied with chemical analyses showing the percentages of tannin. From Portugal were several exhibits of grape-seeds for this use. We found but few exhibits of useful nuts, as a forest-product, from trees truly wild; but of species usually planted, and often in a state of semi-cultivation, as chestnuts, filberts, and walnuts, there were several hundred exhibits, mostly from Southern Europe. There were many small, and a few large, collections of seeds of trees and shrubs, the more important of which have been already alluded to. This class afterwards included other classes of seeds, swelling the number of exhibits to some hundreds. From various countries and states there were exhibited manufac tured articles, intended to show the native woods as well as to serve some other obvious use. These were usually articles of furniture or ornament, such as chairs, often of elaborate construction, tables, sometimes inlaid with an immense number of pieces and displaying a great variety of woods, ornamental boxes, etc. The cases in which other exhibits were displayed were also often intended to illustrate the resources of the country in woods for furniture, carving, ornament, or interiors. These articles, however, were usually not exhibited for competition, and where they were they came naturally under the judg ment of Judges of other groups. There were also a few exhibits of ornamental woods collected without regard to the country of their production, and generally displayed to call attention to some class of manufactures, or to embellish some other exhibit. II.—Manufactured Parts of Buildings. Certain manufactured parts of buildings, carpentry, and mould ings, forming a part of Class 227, with some other articles manufac tured of wood, were referred to this group. These exhibits were very varied in character; a portion of them are treated in another general report, and still others would require more space for any satisfactory notice than this sketch will allow. We will only refer incidentally to the Swedish school-house, the fittings up of the Norwegian section in the Main Building, and to certain Scandinavian and other private exhibits noticed in the reports of awards. III.—Timber and Lumber prepared to resist Decay and Com bustion. Section 3 of Class 6c o. There were several exhibits offered in this class, which consisted essentially of a covering of some kind of paint or composition which