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APPENDIX D. 



Royal Scottish ? ".boricultural Society (Aberdeen Branch). 



REPORT 1914. 



The Committee beg to submit the Ninth Annual Report of 

 the Branch. 



The Membership of the Branch is 131, seven new members 

 having joined the Branch during the year. 



The Branch has lost several members through death and 

 removal from the district, including Mr W. E. Nicol of Ballogie, 

 and Mr W. J. Woodman-Smith of Laithers. 



The four quarterly meetings of the Branch, fixed for 13th 

 December 1913, and 9th May, 8th August, and 17th October 

 1 9 14, were all held with the exception of the one on 8th August, 

 on which date it was arranged to hold an excursion to Haddo 

 House, but, on account of the outbreak of war, it had to be 

 abandoned. 



At the Annual Meeting held in December, Sir John Stirling- 

 Maxwell, Bart, of Pollok, a former • President of the Society, 

 gave an address, the subject being " Planting of Moorlands," 

 and, in the course of the address, he dealt specially with the 

 approved method of planting on moss and peaty soils, and 

 draining and ventilating the same for that purpose, giving the 

 result of his own experience in planting this kind of soil. The 

 address was of a most interesting nature, and the discussion on 

 it which followed was taken part in by Sir John Fleming, and 

 Messrs Gammell, Duthie, France, Leslie, and the Chairman, Mr 

 A. F. Irvine. The meeting held in May took the form of an 

 excursion to the paper mills of Messrs Thomas Tait & Sons, 

 Ltd., at Inverurie, and to the woods of Keithhall, the property 

 of the Right Honourable the Earl of Kintore. Much of 

 interest was seen and discussed at both places, and especially 

 at the Inverurie Mills, where the process by which wood is 

 converted into pulp and afterwards manufactured into paper 

 was seen and explained. This is believed to be the only mill 

 in Scotland where the full process is carried out. At the meeting 

 of the Branch in October, a paper was read by Mr Peter Leslie, 

 M.A., B.Sc, Lecturer in Forestry at the University of Aberdeen, 

 on the " Planting of Sand Dunes at Culbin." followed by an 



