l^oval Scottisl? ^rboricultural Socicig 



Instituted 16th February 1854. 



PATRON : 



HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE KING. 



PROCEEDINGS IN 1923. 



TJIE ANNUAL MEETING. 



The Seventieth Annual Meeting of the Royal Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural Society was held in the Goold Hall, 5 St Andrew 

 Square, Edinburi^h, on Wednesday, 7th February 1923, at 

 1.45 P.M. His Grace the Duke of Atholl, K.T., President of 

 the Society, in the Chair. 



Minutes. 



The Minutes of the Meeting held at Dumfries having been 

 printed and circulated were held as read. 



Apologies. 



Apologies for absence were intimated from Lord Novar, Sir 

 John Stirling Maxwell, Sir Andrew Agnew, Sir Kenneth 

 Mackenzie, Major Murray, and Messrs Whitton, Leslie and 

 Annand, Members of Council ; and Lord Lovat, Sir Hugh 

 Shaw Stewart, General Stirling, Colonel Fothringham, S. J. 

 Gammell of Countesswells, H. D. Lorimer, M.P., Dr Lauder, 

 Sir Robert Usher, and Sir A. M. Campbell of Succoth ; and 

 Messrs George J. Johnston, Novar, James Johnstone, Ayr, 

 John J. Simpson, Dupplin : J. G. Cunningham, Fochabers, 

 W. M. Price, J. Campbell Laing, Robert Forbes, and George 

 Campbell, Younger of Succoth. 



