28 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



suitability of the watershed for afforestation, the Water Com- 

 mittee recently decided to plant an experimental area of two 

 acres of land, having a northerly aspect, situated 900 feet above 

 sea-level. This was done in January last by men from the 

 Distress Committee's register. In all, 800 trees of various 

 kinds were planted at a total cost of ^^26, 17s. 8d., made up 

 as follows: — Cost of trees, _£i, i6s.; preparing ground and 

 planting, ^6, 4s,; making fence, jQ^, 2s. 6d.; and fencing 

 materials, ^14, 15s. 2d. The cost of trees and of planting 

 amounted to ^^ per acre ; the fencing was necessary to keep 

 out cattle and sheep from the adjoining pasture land. 



Bury. — The Bury and District Joint Water Board are 

 planting a small area annually. Up to the present, three 

 plantations of 38I acres in all have been planted at a total 

 cost of ;^4oi, or about ^10, 7s. per acre. Four-year-old 

 trees have been put in 4 feet apart, and the cost of the various 

 items has been as follows : — 



Supplying and planting 

 Cost of fencing 

 Labour for erecting fencing . 

 Carting, etc. . 



^401 10 6 

 Heyzvood. — Trees have been planted on one acre of the 

 catchment area, and there is a probability of further planting 

 being done this year. 



Cardiff. — According to a report made by the Waterworks 

 engineer to the Cardiff Corporation, about half an acre of land 

 at Rhubina was planted in 1904 with larch seedlings, and about 

 4 acres at Cantreff were planted with seedlings of Scots pine, 

 larch, and spruce, and with Austrian pine i^ to 2 feet high. 

 The situation at Rhubina was specially favourable, and the 

 trees are now, after five years' growth, from 10 to 15 feet high, 

 and there have been practically no losses. The ground at 

 Cantreff, although at an elevation of 1000 feet above sea-level, 

 was also favourable for planting, and good progress has been 

 made there. In the autumn of 1906 some 8 to 10 acres of the 

 mountain on the west side of the " Beacons " Reservoir were 

 planted. This site was not so favourably situated as the others, 

 and considerable loss has been experienced, but on the whole 

 it is considered that the trees are doing fairly well for an 



