180 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
XXI. The Twenty-cighth Annual Excursion —Argyll, Ayr, and 
Renfrew, 5th to 8th July 1905.1 By the Assistant EDITOR. 
Under exceptionally fine weather conditions the Twenty- 
eighth Annual Excursion of the Society was held in the 
counties of Argyll, Ayr, and Renfrew, the principal estates 
visited being Benmore, Cessnock, Lanfine, Loudoun, Erskine, 
and Pollok. 
On the forenoon of Wednesday, 5th July, the General Meet- 
ing of the Society was held in the show-yard of the Highland 
and Agricultural Society at Scotstoun, under the presidency of 
Mr Steuart Fothringham, and thereafter the Excursion party 
spent the afternoon in making a tour of the Glasgow City Parks, 
under the guidance of Mr Whitton, the superintendent, who had 
made excellent arrangements for their visit, and had carefully 
mapped out an interesting programme for them. 
The party, which was under the leadership of Mr Buchanan, 
Convener of the Excursion Committee, consisted of the 
following gentlemen :—Robert Allan, Polkemmet, Whitburn ; 
John Annand, Haystoun, Peebles; Thomas Blair, Hoprig, 
Gladsmuir; John Boyd, Pollok, Pollokshaws; John Broom, 
Bathgate; W. R. Brown, Heckfield, Winchfield, Hants; T. R. 
Bruce, Old Garroch, Dalry, Galloway ; C. Chisholm, Hattonlaw, 
Lundin Links; Wm. Christie, Fochabers ; James Cook, Arniston ; 
R. W. Cowper, Gortanore, Sittingbourne; J. H. Cumming, 
Grantully, Aberfeldy; W. R. Elgar, Hillside, Sittingbourne ; 
James Farquharson, Inverkip; James Forbes, Overtoun, 
Dumbarton; Robert Forbes, Kennet, Alloa; James Forgan, 
Sunnybraes, Largo; Robert Galloway, Secretary, 19 Castle 
Street, Edinburgh ; John Gellatly, Newhall, Penicuik; A. T. 
Gillanders, Park Cottage, Alnwick; James Gossip, Inverness ; 
Peter Gow, Laggan, Ballantrae; John Hay, Kilmarnock; Wm. 
P. Hay, Loanhead; Peter Henderson, Ballindalloch; Wm. 
Henderson, Clonad, Tullamore, King’s County; Sir Archibald 
Buchan Hepburn, Bart., Smeaton-Hepburn, Prestonkirk ; 
Richard Hogg, Glenapp, Ballantrae; Thomas Hood, Bogend, 
1 Notes for this Report have been kindly furnished by Messrs Whitton, 
Stewart, MacBean, and Boyd. 
