VALUE AS A CROP. I 5 9 



down: sixty trees, average 30 cubic feet = 1800 at 

 I od. per foot, Lj 5 : — 



The surrounding ground was letting at about 20s. per 



acre per annum ....... £}^2 o o 



Plants (larch only) originally planted . . . . O 10 o 



Compound interest on first outlay at 4 per cent. . . 151 



It has to be noted that the sixty trees per acre selected 

 to occupy the ground were not intended as a full crop, 

 but only to supply what would otherwise have ap- 

 peared a blank in the landscape, underwood and 

 hop-poles being the crop most preferred. 



!N"o. 2 is a plantation in Inverness-shire, compre- 

 hending 900 acres. It was planted in 1785, and 

 was sold standing, and cut down in 1865, being 

 eighty years old. The planting and early history 

 are now little known, but it may be assumed that 

 the turf dyke with which it was enclosed would 

 cost about £\\2, and the cost of plants, labour of 

 planting, &c., about 30s. per acre; or, including cost 

 of fence, about ;^ 146 2. The thinnings throughout its 

 growth might be worth about £\o per acre, and the 

 crop in several parts realised fully ^100 per acre. 



The crop when sold comprehended about 200 

 trees per acre, averaging from 8 to 80 cubic feet 

 each. The great difference of size of the trees may 

 be accounted for from differences of soil, distance 

 apart, some well clothed, and others almost destitute 

 of branches. 



