520 STATE AND PROSPECTS OF ARBORICULTURE IN HAMPSHIRE. 
Alice Holt is situate about two miles north of Woolmer, and 
may be estimated at 3000 acres. It contains plantations of young 
and thriving oaks from fifty to sixty years of age, and but little 
ripe timber. 
Parkhurst extends to over 1000 acres, and consists mostly of 
brushwood and small trees. 
A GENERAL VIEW. 
The county may be divided into three divisions with reference 
to woodlands as follows :—The North, Central, and South. The 
great bed of chalk almost defines the boundaries of these divisions ; 
but, to be more particular, the boundary between the north and 
central divisions may be described as commencing at East Wood- 
hay on the west, running eastward, taking in Highclere Park, 
Sidmonton, Ebbworth, Monks Sherbourne, Chinham, Newnham, 
Grey well, and Odiham ; then north-easterly by Dogmersfield Park 
to Fleet Pond ; then east to Farnborough Park on the borders of 
Surrey. 
The boundary between the south and central divisions com- 
mences at Rowlands Castle on the east, on the borders of Sussex ; 
then westward and north of the Forest of Bere to Bishop’s Wal- 
tham, Fisher’s Pond, and Otterbourne ; then north of Hursley 
Park to Parnholt Wood; then following nearly the line of the old 
Roman road from Winchester to Salisbury, to Horsebridge and 
Whiteshoot Hill, north of Norman Court, on the boundary with 
Wilts. Standing on this hill and looking north, a vast treeless 
plain meets the eye ; but on turning to the south, there is appa- 
rently but one boundless forest stretched before you, and as far as 
the eye can reach. 
The acreage of woods and plantations for the whole county is 
returned at 105,489 acres, or about one-tenth of the total area. 
The adjoining county of Sussex is returned at a higher percent- 
age; but it is doubtful whether, acre for acre, Hampshire does 
;0t produce more timber than Sussex, as the coppice land in the 
latter is more destitute of trees than the former. 
Tue Woops WITHIN Living Memory AND THEIR PRESENT 
STATE. 
The area and quantity of timber grown have considerably de- 
creased within these last forty years. This has arisen, first, from 
