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APPENDIX C. 



Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society (Aberdeen Branch). 



REPORT 1918. 



The Committee beg to submit the Thirteenth Annual Report 

 of the Branch. 



The Membership of the Branch is 135, eighteen having 

 joined the Branch. 



In view of the continuance of the war, and the restricted 

 travelling facilities, it was decided not to hold any excursions 

 during the year, and, accordingly, only two regular meetings 

 of the Branch have been held, one being the Annual Meeting 

 on 14th December 1917, and the other on 14th September 

 1918. 



At the Annual Meeting, after the formal business had been 

 transacted, the members lunched together in the Douglas 

 Hotel, Aberdeen, and during the afternoon the party visited 

 the timber yard of Messrs George Gordon & Co., Ltd., where 

 a new saw was seen in operation ; and also the boxmaking 

 factory of Messrs James Cordiner & Sons, Torry, where 

 they saw many modern appliances at work. 



The Meeting held on 14th September 1918, took the form of 

 a visitation to the Burnside Nurseries of Messrs Smith & Sons, 

 and to Pinewood Nurseries of Messrs Ben Reid & Co., both 

 in close proximity to the city of Aberdeen. There was a 

 very large attendance of members, who expressed their 

 astonishment and admiration for the manner in which the 

 nurserymen had been able to keep up their stocks of plants 

 under very great difficulties, and at considerable expense, and 

 they were very highly commended for their patriotic spirit in 

 doing so. At the Pinewood Nurseries a practical demonstra- 

 tion was given of Messrs Ben Reid & Co.'s hinged transplanting 

 boards, a method of transplanting which appears to have aroused 

 considerable attention in forestry circles. The Company was 

 very hospitably received and entertained at both nurseries by 

 the heads of these old firms, and altogether the day was one 

 of the most enjoyable and instructive which has taken place 

 in the annals of the Branch. 



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