^ogal Scottish ^rboricultural Society* 



SYLLABUS OF COMPETITIONS— 1910. 



[The Judges are empowered to fix the value of the Prizes to be 

 awarded according to the respective merits of the Essays. 



All Essays, Reports, Models, or other Articles intended for 

 Competition must he lodged vnth the Secretary not later than 

 \Aith May 1910. Each such Essay, Report, Model, or Article 

 must bear a Motto, and be accompanied by a sealed envelope 

 bearing outside the same Motto, with the Class to which the 

 Competitor belongs, and containing a Card with the Name and 

 Address of the Competitor. 



Essays should be written on one side of the paper only ; the 

 left-hand quarter of each page should be left as a blank margin. 

 The lines should not be crowded together. 



Manuscripts for which prizes have been awarded, or which have 

 been wholly or partly reproduced in the Transactions, become the 

 property of the Society and are not returned to their authors. 



Judges cannot compete during their term of office. 



Successful Competitors may have either the medals or their con- 

 verted values, which are as follows: — Gold, £5; No. 1 Silver, £3, 

 No. 2 Silver, £2; No. 3 Silver, £1; Bronze, 10s.] 



The following subjects are named for competition in 1910 : — 

 Class I. — For Open Competition. 



I. An account of one or two of the Broad-leaved and 

 Coniferous Trees, especially of the more recently introduced 

 Species, which the writer has found from experience to be most 

 suitable as Forest Crops on high and exposed situations. The 

 method under which such a Crop has been raised to be fully 

 described. {Five Guineas offered by W. H. Massie, Esq., of 

 Messrs Dicksons & Co., Nurserymen, Edinburgh.) 



II. Suitability of any exotic Conifer for cultivation as a Forest 

 Crop, and nature of the locality found, in the experience of the 

 writer, to be most suitable for it. (Five Gui7ieas offered by 

 David W, Thomson, Esq., Nurseryman, Edinburgh.) 



