12 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH AREORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Forestry (heard by the Commissioners' Forestry Committee) : 

 Representing the Scotch Edtication Departnient — 



Sir John Struthers, K.C.B., Secretary to the Department. 

 Representing the Royal Scottish Arboricidtural Society — 



Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, Bart., President of the 



Society ; 

 The Right Hon. R. C. Monro Ferguson, M.P. ; 

 Lord Lovat : 

 Captain Stirling. 



Representing the Landoivners' Co opei-ative Forestry Society 

 {Scotland) — 



Mr John D. Sutherland, Hon. Secretary of the Society. 



3. Early Tree-Planting- in Scotland.^ 



Historical Notes, with Appendix naming Trees 



KNO\YN BY 1770. 



{IVith One Plate. Y 



By HroH Kovn Watt. 



Systematic planting of trees on an extensive scale has been 

 practised in Scotland for a period of nearly two hundred years. 

 The character of the woodlands has been so greatly changed, 

 that a recent writer (6)-'' is not sure if there is any large wood 

 which can be said to be wholly indigenous in Great Britain now 

 — a statement which certainly requires the qualifications made, 

 so far as it applies to Scotland. In different ways, we hear so 

 much of the benefits and needs of afforestation and of neglect 

 of forestry affairs, that it is well to recollect that Scotland has 

 actually been the area of experiments in arboriculture (I do not 

 say forestry) on a scale unknown in any other country of the 

 world, except England, in some ways. The small number of 

 kinds of trees growing in Scotland two hundred years ago, and 

 the long list of species now found flourishing, illustrate this 



^ From the Glas}:;oio Nattiralist, vol. iii., No. 1, November 1910 (revised by 

 the author for re-pubHcalion Ijy the Society). 



- The blocks used on Plate I. have been kindly lent by the Iknanical 

 Society of Edinburgh. 



" The numbers within brackets throughout refer to the authorities given at 

 the end. 



