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CONTENTS. 



XVII. — The Different Ages at which various Timber Trees may be 

 most profitably felled in different soils and situations. By 

 Lewis Bayne, Forester, Kinmel Park, North Wales, . 175 



XVIII. — On the Natural Production or Self-Sowing of the Common 

 Silver Fir (Picea pectinata). By William Gilchrist, 

 Forester, Cluny Castle, . . . . .180 



XIX. — Note on a Wood damaged by Gases from Calcining of Iron- 

 stone. By Andrew Slater, Forester, Loftus, Yorkshire, 184 

 XX. — On a new Transplanting Machine. By James Kay, Forester, 



Bute Estate, Rothesay. (Plates I. and II.), . .186 



XXI. — On the Altitude and Appearance of the Wellingtonia gigantea. 

 By Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie, F.R.S.E., &c. 

 (Plate III.), ...... 190 



XXII.— The Self-Sown Oak Trees of Sussex. By R. W. Clutton, . 194 

 XXIII. — Address delivered at the Twenty-first Annual Meeting. By 

 Hugh Cleghorn, M.D., F.R.S.E., late Conservator of 

 Forests, Madras, . . . . . .199 



XXIV. — On the Literature of Scottish Arboriculture. By Robert 



Hutchison of Carlowrie, F.R.S.E., . . .211 



XXV. — On the Present State and Prospects of Arboi'iculture in 

 Aberdeenshire. By William Gilchrist, Forester, Cluny 

 Castle, . ... . . .235 



XXVI. — On the Draining of Plantations, by Open or Covered Drains. 



By Lewis Bayne, Forester, Kinmel Park, Abergele, . 250 



XXVII. — On the Conservation of Old and Remarkable Trees in Britain. 



By Robert Hutchison of Carlowrie, F.R.S.E., . . 259 



XXVIII.— On the Use of Steam Power in Forestry. By D. F. 



M'Kenzie, Forester, Meklrum House, . . . 2b'9 



XXIX. — The Advantages of Planting in Groups, or in Mixed Planta- 

 tions, so as to combine Profit with Landscape Effect. By 

 William Gorrie, Rait Lodge, Edinburgh, . . 274 



XXX. — Report on the Meteorological Observations made at Carnwath, 

 Lanarkshire, on the Influence of Forests on Climate, par- 

 ticularly Rainfall. By Alexander Buchan, M.A., 

 F.R.S.E.,, Secretary of the Scottish Meteorological Society, 285 



ERRATUM. 

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