Roval Scottish Arboricultural Society. 
SYLLABUS OF COMPETITIONS—1907. 
[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 
15th May 1907. Hach such Essay, Report, Model, or Ariicle 
must bear a Morro, and be accompanied by a sealed envelope 
bearing outside the sAmME Morro, with the Class to which the 
Competitor belongs, and containing a Carp with the NamE and 
ADDRESS of the Competitor. 
Essays should be 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. 
Judges cannot compete during their term of office. 
Successful Competitors may have ether the medals or their con- 
verted values, which are as follows:—Gold, £5; No. 1 Silver, £3; 
No. 2 Silver, £2; Bronze, 10s. ] 
The following subjects are named for competition in 1907 :— 
Crass [.—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. (live Guineas 
offered by W. H. Massiz, Esq., of Messrs Dicksons & Co., 
Nurserymen, Edinburgh.) 
IT. 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 Davin W. Tuomson, Esq., Nurseryman, Edinburgh.) 
