STATE AND PROSPECTS OF ARBORICULTURE IN HAMPSHIRE. 511 
XXII. On the Present State and Future Prospects of Arbori- 
culture in Hampshire. By Joun Smiru, Surveyor, 
Romsey, Hampshire. 
SITUATION. 
Hampshire, with the Isle of Wight, is bounded on the north by 
Berkshire, on the east by Surrey and Sussex, on the west by 
Wiltshire and Dorsetshire, and on the south by the British 
Channel. It is about 55 miles from north to south, and about 36 
from east to west; being of an irregular oblong figure, lying 
between 50 degrees 34 minutes and 51 degrees 22 minutes north 
latitude, and between 43 minutes and 1 degree 54 minutes west 
longitude ; and has a total area of 1,040,000 acres. 
The Isle of Wight is separated from the mainland by the 
channel called the Solent, which varies in breadth from two to 
seven miles. The island has an area of 105,000 acres, which is 
included in the above. 
GEOLOGY. 
The soils of Hampshire are various, ranging from the rich allu- 
vium of the valleys, the stiff clays and the light soil of the chalk 
downs, to the poor sandy soil of the Upper Bagshot. A vast 
deposit of chalk forms the greater proportion of the subsoil, being 
estimated at 371,200 acres, or about one-third of the whole area. 
This deposit is divided into two sorts, the middle and upper ; the 
former towards the north and the latter towards the south. The 
upper chalk is soft, and contains beds and nodules of black flints ; 
the middle is harder and of a darker colour, and the soil generally 
poorer. 
The boundary of the chalk may be described as commencing at 
the north-west boundary with Berkshire at East Woodhay, pro- 
ceeding south-east to Street and Highclere, then east to Itching- 
wells ; thence south-east by east to Kingsclere, Ewhurst, Monks 
Sherbourne, Sherbourne St John, Chinham, Old Basing Greywell, 
Odiham, to Croudall ; thence south-east to the borders of Surrey, 
where it is only about a mile broad, recommencing at a place 
called Checksfarm ; thence almost due west to Easanage; from 
thence in a zigzag outline by Lower Froyle, Froyle, and Holy- 
bourne to about a mile south-east of Chawton; then a south- 
easterly direction by Selbourne to Empshot; thence south- 
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