r04 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOITISH ARBORf CULTURAL SOCIETY. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Deputation to the Chairman of the Board of 

 Agriculture for Scotland in June last. 



The Society has been informed that consent to the publication 

 of a detailed report of the proceedings at the reception of the 

 Deputation would be contrary to official tradition. 



Afforestation at Talla. 



We understand that the Edinburgh and District Water Trustees 

 propose to afforest part of the Talla water-catchment area. 

 According to a report of a meeting of the Trustees, which 

 appeared in the Scotsman, Sir Sainthill Eardley-Wilmot and Sir 

 William Haldane, two of the Development Commissioners, 

 visited the area in September last, and as a result of their report 

 the Commissioners state that they are prepared " to take a 

 favourable view of an application from the Trustees for an 

 advance from the Development Fund, by way of loan, to assist in 

 afforesting the Talla catchment area." Mr Stebbing, lecturer on 

 forestry at Edinburgh University, has, at the request of the 

 Water Trustees, prepared a report upon the scheme, which 

 includes proposals for the operations involved in the process of 

 afforestation, and suggests that a beginning be made on a small 

 scale, operations being begun during the present winter. 



The Woodlands of Argyllshire. 



We understand that the Board of Agriculture for Scotland 

 have issued a schedule of questions to proprietors of woodlands 

 in Argyllshire, and that it is proposed, after particulars of the 

 Argyllshire woods have been collected, to issue similar schedules 

 to proprietors in other counties, so that in course of time a 

 complete inventory of the woods of the country can be made. 



