I04 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



and on peaty soil, of planting on inverted turf, which is the 

 method recently adopted by him on his Corrour Estate. Mr 

 W. H. Whellens had an interesting exhibit of the larvae of 

 Nematu<: erichsofii. Mr David O'Brien, clog manufacturer. 

 Dumfries, showed timber of which clog soles are made, and of 

 clogs in different stages of manufacture. There was also on 

 view a very complete collection of bobbins and bobbin wood. 

 Messrs J. Heine, Sohne, Halstenbek, Germany, exhibited a 

 collection of seedling and of transplanted forest trees and hedge 

 plants. 



The judges of the exhibits were Dr A. W. Borthwick, Hon. 

 Cryptogamist to the Society; Mr William Wilson, timber 

 merchant, Auchlinleck; and Mr G. U. Macdonald, overseer, 

 Haystoun Estate, Peebles. Mr J. H. Milne-Home was convener 

 of the local committee, while Mr John Learmont, nurseryman, 

 Dumfries, rendered valuable service to the Society by taking 

 charge of the exhibits. The prize list will be found in the 

 Proceedings of the General Meeting held at Dumfries in 1910. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Landowners Forestry Co-operative Society. 

 Members may be interested to hear that the Landowners 

 Forestry Co-operative Society, to which some allusion was 

 made at the last annual meeting, is now in working order. 

 The new society has begun with about two hundred subscribers, 

 who are nearly all members of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural 

 Society, and it is expected that the membership will very rapidly 

 increase. An office has been opened at No. 122 George Street, 

 Edinburgh, and Mr George Scott Elliot has been appointed 

 secretary. The new society will in no sense compete with 

 or overlap the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, and 

 desires to work in close association with it. It is concerned 

 solely with trading operations which could not properly be 

 undertaken by the larger society, such as the purchase and 

 exchange of seeds, plants, implements and fencing materials, and 

 the sale of timber. The society proposes to circulate a monthly 

 bulletin among its members, dealing with prices and matters of 



