The Scottish Arboeicultueal Society will hold its Twenty-fourth 

 Annual General Meeting in the Lecture Hall at the Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Edinburgh,on Tuesday, 6th November, when the meeting will 

 be presided over by the Right Hon. W. P. Adam, M.P., of Blairadam, 

 the President of the Society, who will deliver an Inaugural Address 

 to the members and otliers present at the opening^of the proceedings. 

 From the very excellent programme issued by the indefatigable 

 Secretary of the Society, INFr. Sadler, the meeting is certain to be a 

 very attractive one, and highly instructive to all who take an interest 

 in forestry in however small a degree, and can make it convenient to 

 attend the meeting. We should strongly urge all our readers, but more 

 especially landed proprietors and their foresters, who are not already 

 members of this most useful and perseveringly industrious society, to 

 join its ranks at once, and assist the promotion of arboriculture in some 

 tangible way, through the only association in the British dominions 

 exclusively devoted to the advancement of the science and practice of 

 arboriculture in all its varied branches. Under the present state of 

 matters, when the Government utterly neglects British forestry, we look 

 upon this Society more in the light of a national institution than merely 

 an association of private individuals endeavouring to promote the 

 successful culture of a race of plants in which they take a special 

 interest ; and for the valuable service it has rendered to forest science 

 and practice during the twenty-four years it has been in existence, 

 and the still more valuable aid it is likely to render in future, from 

 its now flourishing state and rapidly increasing membership^ it certainly 

 deserves and ought to receive every help and encouragement from all 

 those whose duty or pleasure leads them to take an interest in the 

 culture of trees and arborescent vegetation. 

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