CONTENT S. 



The Society, as a body, is not to be considered responsible for any facts or 

 opinions advanced in the several papers, which must rest entirely on the authority 

 of the respective authors. 



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I. Address delivered at the Twenty-Second Annual Meeting. By 

 John Huttox Balfour, M.D., M.A., F.R.SS.L. and E 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh, . 



II. Experiments in Planting Sand-hills. By James Hutton 

 Forester, M03', ..... 



19 



III. On the Present State aud Prospects of Arboriculture in Hamp- 



shire. By Andrew Peebles, Highclere Castle, Newbury, . 25 



IV. Pruning in relation to the Production of Timber. By John B. 



Smyth, Forester, Duff House, . . . . .54 



V. The Failures of the Larch. By William Gorrie, Rait Lodge, 



Trinity, . . . . . . . .61 



VI. On the Age at which various Timber Trees in Scotland may be 

 most Profitably Felled. By D. F. M'Kexzie, Forester, Mel- 

 drum House, . . . . . . .70 



VII. On the Distances at which Forest Trees should be Planted on 

 different Soils and Situations. By Lewis Bayne, Forester, 

 Kinmel Park, Abergele, . . . . .77 



VIII. The Age of Trees, . ...... 84 



IX. On the most Profitable Mode of disposing of Home-grown Timber. 



By D. F. M'Kenzie, Forester, Meldrum House, . . 88 



APPENDIX. 



1. Abstract of the Annual Account for the Year 1874-75, . . 1 



2. List of Members, corrected to January 1876, .... 2 



3. Subjects offered for Competition during 1S75-76, . . .19 



4. Abstract of the Laws of ihe Society, as amended to November 1875, 21 



5. Office-bearers for 1875-76, ...... 23 



