NOVEMBER 21, 1874.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 659 
sasha 
ave an interesting account of the manage- 
ae Indian forests, and of the valuable pro- 
eri 
r 
though many large tracts of agate — simply grown 
for 4 f th 1. He p 
n 
ir for and maintenance 
trusted that their faculties Of. natin would, by 
such inspection, receive a healt y stimulus, zey that 
uld go home wi views 
position. Perhaps some Înfiuence ~rr lead an 
or some ‘previously dorm r be stirred up i 
their mind, which, after bas study cand patient 
ol ae raise them the ese ad a 
Loudon, a M‘Nab, or a M‘Corquodale. 
stood that there was a proposal for the enlargenient 
of the beautiful Botanic Garden, with a view to the 
formation of an extended arboretum, which would 
ag that Professor Balfour should be President- 
He believed that the Protea s name, being 
otis r emoc pam ed with the Society, w ould ce an 
honour don he Society, and at the pe 
tribute would be paid to Professor Balfour's s life- 
be erest in the success of arboriculture. 
n the motion of Mr. Maxwell, of Munches, 
y Mr. Lorraine, a the ae Mill, 
oa a cordial vote of t s was ac- 
o Dri, Cleghorn for his reste “aad interest- 
S. 
New Members.—Upwards of sixty new members 
were proposed and elected. 
Treasurer s Report,—Bailie Methven, Treasure 
is 
I 
766s, paid for printing the Zransactions, and £29 
paid into e Sa fund, which now amounted to 
418. Th port was appro oved of, 
rng, Ae 
Mggested that steps Should b e taken for continuing 
: the ons during at least four months of the 
oo gave a very it report of experi- 
i wath 
entered 
and placed three stations at the disp 
iety. Dr. Cleghorn and himself had sii 
and had fixed on vi ee con- 
very favourable chara The forest 
> selected contained about 62 acres, a a little outst 
to the north-west was a green knoll quite clear of 
a tees. In the interior of the wood, and 320 yards 
a distant, was another knoll of precisely Soe 
s Immediately on the top-of the west 
this b tch Tt p 
r to each other. ‘The instru 
Placed set on each knoll—at ou 
height above the ground, The o on 
than w could not — a bette 
air of Soggy over 
e the wood, and 58°.3 
outside the wood. 
The mean of all the maximum ecb ee That brought him to the point that it 
day ep gp oe inside the wood was 52°,2, and the unfortunate that the British Association had 
mean of the minimum temperatures was 38°.8, icy ane their grant of £ 20 to the Society to carry 
while the e eika outside the wood were 51°.7, and | out their investigatio He believed t ch 
7 respectively. The means of the night te - | valuable report as they had heard would i he 
er 
places ta whole period of observation— | He moved that the mg mg should be re- -appointed, 
ng in 
month of June, the difference | that they should use every endeavour to secu 
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ever amounted to more than a fifth of a degree. On | renewal of the grant gee the British Association, p 
the other hand, the averages of the day for the maxi- | that the Society should place at the disposal of the 
m temperature showed an excess of half a degree | committee a sum maf 5, t nt nable them to carry on 
in favour of the station inside th Looking t the observations at Carr 
the separate ae several very interesting points Professor Balfour poate the motion, which was 
came out. Beginn ing | with September, 1873, the tem- | agreed to 
perature inside the wood was six-tenths of a degree The Proposed Extension of the Botanic Garden, — 
lower than the aade October it was half a | Professor Balfour stated that for the sake of ee 
degree less ; in November, inside and outside were | calture, he was very anxious that the Ro 
exactly equal, In December the temperature inside | Garden should be apoca On the other side of the 
of the wood was a third of a degree higher'than the ens t re 20 acres of the Inverleith estate, 
outside ; in January a tenth more, in February atenth | be ng to the beg of, Fettes College, who were 
th more, in April one degree | perfectly willing art with it at a fair valuation. 
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and a tenth warmer in the inside than in the outside, | The pl at ad at present before them a plan 
in May one degree and eight-tenths warmer, in June | for this extension. i land was well fitted for trees, 
hs, in July one degree one-tenth, | and he proposed to make of it an arboretum, whic 
ent 
in August eight-tenths, in the first half of September | would be of great sali not only to students but to 
e last half of September two- | the public as a recreation ground, At present no 
en The remarkable result disclosed during the | fewer a 7000 herbaceous plants were sometimes 
annual rise of temperature in the spring and sum- | issued in a day as specimeni for tuition and demon- 
mer mont we aa in the inside of the wood aoai in im, Po ens, Thestudents last session 
the temperature w egrees higher than on the | numbered 354, the epe rahi mia the kind inthe United 
outside, while Tait td annual fall of i Kingdom ; but these might be augmented by forestry 
ture in e rd the temperature of the day i of students, who would come to learn thẹ habits. and 
he wood was in 
than on the outside. 
looked at solely with 
e mean half a ay egree lo we physiology of trees, were a proper arboretum estab- 
Now, if this question had been | lished. Again, if this extension of the grounds were 
pe ae to the conservative influ- | secured, greater room might be found for their mu. 
nce of trees in preventing sudden rises and falls of seum, He hoped that the Society would support him 
temperature, a different alt might have been looked | in his pga Bi o the Treasury and First Re ye 
for. In other words, ie the gans annual rise in odir o of Works for this extension s the 
the Soe ea of the 
e garden 
erature inside the On the motion o r. Hutchiso’ “homes remitted 
the tempe 
wood might have been expected to have lagged behind, | to the o fice-benrers and the Oomi or the Society to 
while the fall in ‘the autumn might have been expecte: d prepare a memorial to be forwarded to the First Com- 
t 
have fallen less quickly. The experiments had | missioner o Vorks, urging the extension- of the 
proved ai ae to what, asan experienced meteoro- | gardens and the formation of an art m, 
logist, he would have been led to expect. This he Competitive Essays.— Mr. Gilchrist, Cluny, read 
explained by ‘the fact that during the spring and sum- | the report of the judges on competitive essays on sub- 
mer months the annual increase of tem erattre took | jects gon rer by the Society. The prizes awarded 
lace owing to in by solar radiation being highly | were as follows ning of Timber Trees, con- 
in excess of the heat lost by aes radiation, and waered. phyla oo mi medal, J. mythe, 
it was during this perto rai he day temperature of | forester, Melville, Ladybank, Fife, aa D. Tait, 
confined spaces in wo o which the ‘sun’s wh forester, Owston. ry neur bronze 
had access, and where t the e crtnlasicn of f theair wa medal, Andrew Slater, ia pean Sait 
ei "Tt was to be noted 
was 
temperatures observed in 
nd 
all points closely resembled those of the maximum | Rema rkable Trees in "Brita ain wast ser hae Robert 
d minimum temperatures, With reference to the | Hutchison, of Carlowrie; Draining by Open and 
a 
moisture, the follo 
wing were the results :—The ered Didin pla medal, Lewis Bayne, Kinmel 
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average dew ee inside the wood at 9 in the morning Park, North Wales; Employment of Locomotive 
was 42°.5, 
9 P.M. the weeks: 
n the outside it was 42°, and at | Engines in Forestry—silver medal, D. F. Mackenzie, 
2 and 40° ; thus showing at both | fi i ich Trees 
orester. 
hours a greater amount of vapour of the air inside than | should be Planted Apart—silver medal, Lewis Bayne ; 
articular months the excess | Should Oak Pindtaniotis be Grown from Acorns or 
w uch greater than at other tim Thus, in | from Transplanted Trees ? edal, A, Peebles. 
August, the dew point inside the w on the Election of “Office-B —Professor Balfour was 
average 1°.8 higher than outside. The meaning of | then elected President for the ensuing year, and the 
that was, that supposing a current of air set in which oa a, gentlemen were elected Vice-Presidents :— 
amirsa W. 
was gradually lowering in temperature, clouds would = vom of Munches ; Mr. John Grant 
i when its tempera- Thom son, Grantown ; Dr. Cleghorn, of Stravithy ; 
er than the outside. This was | Mr, Robert Hutchison, of Carlowrie ; ; and oo Right 
ined f Hon. W. P. Adam, M.P., of Bilair-Ada Mr. 
E 
nomena with which foresters were acquainted, such as 
the formation of clouds above woods when the open 
clear sky coheed The gener. 
results of the observations went to prove q 
e spring 
while during the fall 
John ec Secretary, and Mr. Gouies ‘Crichton: 
Treasu 
he 
Pinan —In the afternoon the members of the 
downto dinn oe a S ALD oe 
moister than that outside, 
of the year it was colder and 
chan pointed out the 
S as 
ein rr of the ta Cleghorn Me, 
. In conclusion, Mr. Bu 
pras zaie ir of these observations in their relation to sa of img (ot Certo) Poneto = nas , 
7 Ollier, ee The aiai lo pa rank patriotic toasts havi 
en proposed and responded to, orraine gave 
: ‘The Lord Provost, Magistrates, beri Town Counci 
i of Edinburgh,” which was rege age the new 
res of the trees themselves, which | Methven. The Bailie said that what with the n 
an the p ertai ined by means of thermometers fix p en at the Dean Park, which he had good reaso 
in th manner "adop ted for several years | to believe was to be made very soon, and the kajati, 
eaten sion of the Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh would 
work of foreste 
and 
t that sich steps should be adopted as had been 
ani ere it, He wah very glad indeed to have the 
do 
o miee of acknowle 
nee which the Soci 
be the best supplied na in the kin gdom with public 
recreation grounds. j osed - 
Scottish ASoreatnal Soc ciety,” which he said em- 
braced not only Scotland, bcs poe and and Ireland. 
For m sits oil ears a great de trees had taken 
ae a he aae hat he the 
dging the pet ee 
iety labo boas * Mr. 
ould 
