STATE AND PROSPECTS OF ARBORICULTURE IN HAMPSHIRE. 515 
The Lower Bagshot commences at Bedhampton Park, midway 
between the principal chalk formation and that of Portsdown 
Hill, and extending westward to Wickham in irregular patches, 
surrounded by the London clay, like islands in the sea, At 
Wickham it divides into two belts, one following the London clay 
by Bishopstoke, Romsey, Wellow, and Bramshaw, where it 
expands into a broad belt at the boundary with Wilts. It then 
re-enters Hampshire south of Bramshaw Heath, there bounded 
by the Bracklesham beds on the south, and terminating at Ower 
near the finely-wooded park of Paultons (Hans Sloane Stanley, 
Esq.). Going back to Wickham, a narrow belt runs westward, 
dipping under the Hamble river at Hamwood, to near Botley 
Common; then curving southward to Bursledown, then south- 
eastward by Swanwick, Fareham Park, Elson, and Portsea, and 
terminating at Langston Harbour. A broad belt commences at 
Bournemouth and Christchurch, thence northwards along the 
boundary of Dorsetshire to Ringwood, where it is found on both 
sides of the river Avon as far as Fordingbridge, then running 
north-eastward across the New Forest it enters Wiltshire at 
Hatchet Green. 
The Bracklesham or Middle Bagshot occupies a large area, 
commencing at Langston Harbour westward to Portsmouth, 
Gosport, and Titchfield, to the Hamble river. It then occupies 
the whole of the area between Southampton Water on the south- 
west to Romsey on the river Test, curving north-eastward to 
Ampfield, south-eastward by Chandlers Ford, Bishopstoke Station, 
to Wickham, on the Titchfield river. A broad belt commences 
on the west side of Southampton Water, opposite Southampton, 
going north-west to Tatchbury Mount, where it divides into two, 
one proceeding up the valley of the Test on the opposite side of 
the river from the town of Romsey to Shootash Hill; the other 
belt proceeds to Pollard’s Moor and Canterton near Rufus’s Stone. 
It then zigzags in a narrow belt with Wiltshire. It then re-enters 
Hampshire at Black Bush Plain, crossing the New Forest to 
Ringwood, where it is to be found on both sides of the Avon 
river to the sea. 
The Barton clay, Upper Bagshot sand, the Osborne and Headon 
beds, are included in the large tract of land from Wiltshire on 
the north to the sea and the Solent on the south, and from 
Southampton Water on the east to the river Avon on the west, 
and forming the most important subsoils of the New Forest, the 
