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and age. But — and I think it may be taken 

 as a maximum — one man ought to clear and 

 stub one square perch of thick scrub in the 

 day. This does not include the removal of 

 tree-stumps, which may easily entail a good 

 deal of labour and expense. 



Piped drains sunk about three feet deep will, 

 in ordinary soil, cost about two-and-sixpence 

 per chain of twenty-two yards. 



The cost of materials, such as rocks, broken 

 stones, sand, peat, etc., varies so much in 

 different localities and depends so much on 

 the distance they have to be drawn, that it 

 is difficult to give more than a very rough 

 estimate. 



Rocks of all sizes and broken stones, 

 which have to be carted about two miles, 

 I get for three-and-sixpence a load of one ton. 

 Sand costs about four shillings per load. Peat, 

 which has to be drawn five miles from a 

 mountain, costs me five-and-sixpence a load 

 of about twelve cwt. The quantity of rock 

 required for making a garden largely depends 

 on the gradients of the banks in it, and is 

 difficult to estimate with any degree of 



