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SYLLABUS OF COMPETITIONS— 1909. 



\^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 with the Secretary not later than 

 15th May 1909. Each such Essay, Report, Model, or Article 

 must hear a Motto, and he accompanied hy a sealed envelope 

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

 Competitor helongs, and containing a Card with the Name and 

 Address of the Competitor. 



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

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

 The lines should not he crowded together. 



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 1909: — 



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.) 



IF. Suitability of ai)y 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., Nui-sei-yman, Edinburgh.) 



