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most suitable for growing in Scotland. I am not speaking of 

 the common Scots pine, but of the larch and the Douglas fir. 

 So that if you only continue to work along the lines advocated 

 by your Society together with the experience you have in raising 

 very fine crops, your nation will be greatly benefited." 



Mr Carl Bjorkbom said : — " In expressing gratitude for the 

 honour conferred on me by being elected an Honorary Member 

 of your Society, I beg at the same time to thank you for the 

 invitation extended to my native country, Sweden, to send a 

 representative to take part in the rejoicings on the occasion of 

 your Diamond Jubilee. I offer you my heartiest congratulations 

 on its attainment. I am convinced that the great interest in 

 forestry taken by this Society will always carry it forward, and 

 will result in a great harvest. I am sure greater interest in 

 forestry and the increasing activity in afforestation in the country 

 will prove a great reward for your labours. The inhabitants of 

 Scotland will yet be much indebted to you for what you have 

 done and will do for afforestation in Scotland." 



Mr R. H. Campbell said :— " I do not know that I can give 

 you information such as has been given you by the representa- 

 tives from foreign countries, because in Canada we have not 

 advanced in many phases of forestry as much as you have, but 

 I am glad indeed to have the opportunity of thanking the 

 members of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society for the 

 honour they have done me in electing me one of their Honorary 

 Members. I count it a very great honour to have a connection 

 with anything Scottish at any time, and a particularly high 

 honour to have such a connection with the Royal Scottish 

 Arboricultural Society. You have expressed your appreciation 

 of the action of the Government of Canada in sending a repre- 

 sentative to this Diamond Jubilee Celebration and of the interest 

 it takes in forestry, and I may say that I think your remarks 

 were justified, because we have found in Canada that there is a 

 very keen sympathy by the heads of the Government in the 

 works of the ' Forestry Society ' and in works of forestry 

 throughout the Dominion. Both the previous Premier, Sir 

 Wilfred Laurier, and the present Premier, the Right Honourable 

 R. L. Borden, have taken a deep and personal interest in the 

 development of forestry in Canada. This was particularly 

 exemplified by Sir Wilfred Laurier in 1906, when he called a 

 Conference in Ottawa over his own signature as Premier of the 



