84 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAI. SCOTTISH ARBOR ICUI.TURAL SOCltTY. 



could be erected. Wire netting would have to be used if ground 

 game were numerous. 



Name-Plates — Record. — Each specimen should have a plate 

 with its name and the date on which it was planted, and records 

 of the yearly height, growth, girth, etc., of each tree should be 

 kept. This would be valuable as well as interesting to a 

 succeeding generation. Of course the planter of the arboretum 

 would not see all the trees come to maturity, but he would have 

 the pleasure of watching them grow from young transplants 

 to sturdy young trees, and there is as much beauty in a tree of, 

 say, thirty years as there is in one of one hundred and fifty. 

 It is a different kind of beauty often, but is none the less 

 pleasing. 



There are many minor hobbies that could be taken up by 

 young and old in connection with the arboretum — -a collection 

 of cones, for instance, or leaves, or insects which do damage 

 to the different trees. The smaller the latter collection the better 

 the owner should be pleased. 



