CONTENTS. 



The Society does not hold itself responsible for the statements 

 or views expressed by the authors of papers. 



I. Correspondence with Lord Pentland in regard to the Small 



Landholders (Scotland) Bill and a Department of Forestry i 



2 The Development Commission and Forestry ... 3 



3. Early Tree- Planting in Scotland. Historical Notes, with 



Appendix naming Trees known by 1770 (with a Plate . 

 By Hugh Boyd Watt ...... 12 



4. Report on Tree-Pruning in St James's Park and Piccadilly, 



London (with a Plated By Professor I. Bayley Balfour, 

 F.R.S., Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Garden, 

 Edinburgh ....... 3^ 



5. On the best method of Planting at High Altitudes and in 



Exposed Situations, and the best Species of Trees to plant 

 there with the object of procuring (a) Shelter for Stock, 

 and (b) A profitable Timber Crop (with a Plate). By 

 A. W. B. Edwards, Forester, Thirlmere Estate . . 37 



6 Notes on Raising Exotic Conifers from Seed. By J. 



Ferguson, Forester, Gregynog, Montgomeryshire . 46 



7. Continental Notes— France. By A. G. Hobart-Hampden . 48 



8. Notes on some Different Methods of Planting (with Two 



Plates). By Wellwood Maxwell, Kirkennan . . 59 



9 Thorn Hedges and their Management. By W. H. Whellens, 



Comlongon Nursery . .61 



10. The Annual Excursion. By George Leven. With Note by 



Alexander Finlayson ...... 72 



II. The Forestry Exhibition at Inverness. By Brodie of Brodie 84 

 12 Detailed Report on the Forestry Section in the Scottish 



National Exhibition, Glasgow, organised by the Royal 

 Scottish Arboricultural Society, May to November 191 1. 

 By Matthew Feaks, Forester, Benmore .85 



Notes and Queries :— Estate Duty on Timber under the 

 Finance Act of 1910— Rating of Woodlands and Railway 

 Rates on Timber— Canadian Forests— Forest Terminology 

 — Biltmore Forest School— Forests and Forestry Problems 

 in Sierra Leone— Progress, in India, in the Preparation of 

 Working -Plans— Distillation of iWood— New Forestry 

 Books— University of Cambridge— Correction . . 95 



