notes and queries. i07 



Visits of Foreign Professors to Scotland. 



All the members of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, 

 and especially those who took part in the Bavarian Excursion of 

 1909, will be glad to know that our genial and distinguished 

 guide, Professor H. Mayr, of Munich, paid a very welcome visit 

 to Scotland during the month of September. Fortunately, 

 during the week of the visit, the weather conditions were perfect. 

 Mr William Dawson and Dr Borthwick accompanied the 

 professor on a rapidly organised tour to Perthshire, Aberdeen, 

 Elgin and Inverness, in the course of which Murthly, Scone, 

 Durris, Brodie Castle, Bins-ness and Novar were visited. 



In the following month Dr Shirasawa, Chief of the Bureau of 

 Forestry of Japan, paid a visit to Scotland. On his arrival in 

 Edinburgh, on the 3rd of October, he was received by Professor 

 Bayley Balfour who conducted him over the Royal Botanic 

 Garden ; thence, accompanied by Mr R. Galloway and Dr 

 Borthwick, he paid a visit to Dalkeith Park, Newbattle Abbey, 

 Arniston and Penicuik. Next day Dr Shirasawa was met in 

 Aberdeen by Mr William Dawson, and accompanied by him to 

 Durris. By the gracious permission of His Majesty the King, 

 obtained through the good offices of Professor Bayley Balfour, 

 the distinguished Japanese forester was enabled to see the 

 thriving plantations at Balmoral, and the fine old pine forest of 

 Baliochbuie. A visit to Murthly on the journey south completed 

 his Scottish tour. 



Lakix Occidentalis. 



A member of the Society hopes to have a few thousands of 

 2-year-old seedlings of Larix occide?iia/ts for distribution gratis 

 next spring ; he would be glad if any members who care to 

 try a few of them would give their names to the Secretary, 

 with the address to which the seedlings are to be sent. 



It was noted at Kew last summer that the common larch was 

 badly attacked by aphis, while L. oca'defita/is, gxoWmg in mixture 

 with it suff'ered little, if at all. In the seed bed the latter is 

 weaker and more tender than the former species, but later on 

 it grows quite as fast. 



Attack of Lime Trees by Larv^ of Winter Moth. 

 Mr William Elder, writing from Thoresby Park, Nottingham- 

 shire, states that, recently, he has had letters from several gentle- 



