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been made, and improvement is visible as year by year rolls on ; 

 and we fondly hope, if indeed we may not believe and assert, 

 that with such a phalanx of the flower of Scottish forestry — that 

 cradle of the literature of the science in which some of her ablest 

 and most practical writers and authors were reared in bygone years 

 — the future is bright with expectation; and that so long as the 

 members of this Society manfully and cheerfully hand in hand pull 

 together as a united brotherhood in the interests of arboriculture, 

 the literature of that important department of rural economy will 

 not be allowed to become a thing of the past, nor the researches of 

 any labourer in her cause be forgotten. 



