Common Oak 



In New Forest, Aldridge Hill, planted 1813 : 



305 



In Dean Forest : 



In Richmond Park 



In the same volume Mr. Ralph Glutton, in an excellent paper on the self-sown 

 oak woods of Sussex, gives many exact details of the growth of oak without under- 

 wood, with measurements and valuations, which should be consulted by all land- 

 owners in that part of England. 



Under more favourable circumstances, however, oak plantations may yield a 

 good profit, as shown by the following extract from the Norfolk Chronicle, sent me by 

 Sir Hugh Beevor, and printed in Grigor's Eastern Arboretum, p. 360. 



" Being enabled from old memoranda of undoubted authority, and from 

 information received several years ago from different persons, who remembered or 

 who assisted in the work, to give you, perhaps, an unusually accurate account of the 

 produce of a piece of land measuring eight acres, planted with acorns in the year 

 1729, I take the liberty of so doing, and of requesting your insertion of it in your 

 paper whenever you may have the best opportunity. The piece was under the 

 plough at that time, cold and unprofitable, froin the practice of underdraining not 

 being then introduced; at Michaelmas 1729 it was sown with wheat, and acorns 

 dibbled in ; when reaped, the stubble was left very long, which is supposed to have 

 caused the plants to run up very straight. 



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