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past decade at the rate of 10,368 acres per annum, as compared 
with 8225 acres during 1891-95 and 9894 acres during 1881-91. 
1881 1891 1895 
Divisions. to to to 
1891 1895. 1905 
if Acres. Acres Acres 
I. Eastern and North-Eastern, : 5,979 3,145 11,297 
II. South-Eastern and East Midland, 12,481 4,176 15,580 
III. West Midland and South-Western,| 14,270 4,484 16,156 
IV. Northern and North-Western, . 14,643 4,156 16,614 
ENGLAND, : A : b 47,273 15,961 59,647 
V. WALES, . : : : : 11,120 2, 533 8,629 
VI. SCOTLAND (Eastern), F ; 19,957 8,335 22,768 
VII. ScoTLAND (Western), ‘ A 20, 590 6,074 12,639 
GREAT BRITAIN, 5 98,940 32,903 103,683 
This tendency to reduced activity in the middle period, 
followed by greater activity after 1895, is suggested both in 
England (as a whole) and in Wales. In the Eastern Counties, 
as well as in the group of counties lying on the Welsh border, 
there is a suggestion of continuously progressive activity during 
the whole twenty-four years, but in all other parts of the country 
the general indication is in the direction just mentioned. In 
Scotland experience seems to have been more varied. In the 
Eastern and Lowland division the rate of planting has, on the 
whole, increased, whereas in the Western and Highland division 
it seems to have substantially diminished. This seems to be 
largely due to some exceptional activity in Inverness and Ross 
and Cromarty during the decade 1881-91. 
