SUBJECTS OFFEEED FOR COMPETITION DUKING 

 1872-73. 



I. For the best and approved Report on the most extensive. 

 complete, and judiciously arranged Arboretum. 1st Prize, the 

 '• Lawson Prize " of Five Guineas : 2d Prize, a Medal 



The arhoretums reported on in 1872 are exclu 



II. For the best and approved Essay on the present state and 

 future prospects of Arboriculture in the county in which the com- 

 petitor resides. 1st Prize. Five Guineas (offered by David Mitchell. 

 Esq., Xurseryrnan, Edinburgh) ; 2d Prize, a Medal. 



III. For the best and approved Essay on the literature of Scottish 

 Arboriculture. 1st Prize, Three Guineas (offered by the President) ; 

 2d Prize, a Medal. 



IV. For a full and complete, but succinct and well-written 

 account, from published descriptions, — with authorities distinctly 

 quoted, — personal observation, and experiment of the history and 

 present state of the cultivation in Great Britain and Ireland of 

 Oedrus Deodara [C. IAbanotis, and C. atlantica, all now classed as 



.one species). Special Medal, value Three Guineas (offered by L>r J. 

 Eindsay Stewart, Conservator of Forests, Punjab) ; 2d Prize, a 

 medal. 



V. For the best and approved collection of Cones exhibited from 

 and grown in the county in which the competitor resides. 1st Prize. 

 Five Guineas (offered by Messrs Thomas Methven and Sons, Xursery 

 and Seedsmen, Edinburgh) ; 2d Prize, a Medal 



The prize collection to become the property of the Society. 



VI. For the best and approved collection of prepared sections of 

 different kinds of "Wood crown in the county in which the com- 

 petitor resides. (A Medal.) 



VII. For the best and approved series of geological specimens 

 illustrating the different rocks and formations on which Forest Trees 

 and Shrubs grow in the county in which the competitor resides. 

 The specimens to be accompanied by a Eeport. (A Medal.) 



VIII. On the employment of Locomotive Engines in Forestry, 

 especially for the transit of timber, and on the working of portable 

 saw-mills. {A Medal.) 



IX. For an approved Eeport on the Plantations of which the 

 Competitor is Forester. (Three Medals.) One to le awarded for 



