TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



EOYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



i. Report of the General Meeting- held in the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society's Show, The 

 Meadows, Edinburgh, on ioth July iqio. 



The Duke of Buccleuch, President of the Society, was in the 

 chair, and after the minutes of the last Annual Business Meeting 

 had been read and approved, he called upon Mr Milne Home 

 to present the reports of the Judges on the Essays received. 



Mr Milne Home, in announcing the result of the Competition, 

 said : — "On behalf of the Judges of the Essays I would like to 

 make known to this Annual Meeting that the Essay which has 

 been awarded the Gold Medal we thought was of particularly 

 high merit. In fact, speaking for myself, since I have had to 

 do with these Essays I am quite satisfied I have never seen 

 such an excellent Essay as this before. Therefore we decided 

 to recommend the award of the Gold Medal, which has not 

 been given by this Society for some years. I hope that in 

 due course the Essay may be published in the Transactions. 

 The second Essay received the No. i Silver Medal. It is also 

 of very considerable merit and contained a good deal of valuable 

 original matter, and I hope that that also may be published." 



The Forestry Exhibit. 



Mr Robert Allan, Polkemmet, Whitburn. — " I think the Society 

 may congratulate itself on this the first Exhibition after the 

 serious war which we have come through. I think it is one 

 of the best Exhibitions that the Society has ever held. My duty 

 as Convener of the Committee is to ask you to give a vote of 

 thanks to the Highland and Agricultural Society for the site 

 of the Exhibit, and their usual grant of ^20. Of course we 

 have no prizes this year, but the Highland Society very 

 considerately allowed us to use the money in connection with 

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