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SYLLABUS OF COMPETITIONS— 191L 



[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 be lodged with the Secretary not later than 

 \dth May 1911. Each such Essay, Report, Model, or Article 

 m,ust bear a Motto, and be accompanied by a sealed envelope 

 hearing outside the SAME Motto, tvith the Glass in which the 

 Writer competes, and containing a Card witJo the Name and 

 Address of the CoTnpetitor. 



Essays should he 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 lohich prizes have been atvarded, or tvhich 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 1911 : — 



Class I. — -For Open Competition. 



I. 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 foi- it. (Five Guineas offered by 

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



