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SYLLABUS OF COMPETITIONS— 1908. 



\The Judges are empowered to fix the value of the Frizes 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 

 15th May 1908. Each such Essay, Report, Model, or Article 

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

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

 Competitor belongs, arid containing a Card vjith the Name and 

 Address of the Comioetitor. 



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

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

 The lines should not be crowded together. 



Judges cannot compete during their term of office. 



Successful Com2)etitors may have either the medals or their con- 

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

 No. 2 Silver, £2; Bronze, 10s.] 



The following subjects are named for competition in 1908: — 

 Class I. — For Open Competition. 



I. An account 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 Guineas offered 

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



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