92 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



States that they are severely handicapped; the best lands are let 

 as sheep farms, and the part available for planting is rocky and 

 difficult of access, so that the timber is not easily removed. Leeds 

 has done little, although there is a fine area available for planting. 

 Recently the writer saw a conifer plantation felled and replanted 

 near one of their large reservoirs. The grounds at Loch Katrine, 

 utilised by Glasgow, do not belong to them, and the woods are in 

 the hands of the proprietors. In regard to the waterworks 

 grounds of other Scottish corporations {e.g., Edinburgh and 

 Dundee), there are Members of this Society who are in a much 

 better position than the writer to give exact information. 



It is gratifying to hear from a nurseryman who does a large 

 amount of tree-planting, that he has "never known so much 

 planting in hand as there is this season in all parts of England." 



