PLANTING. 



The lowest estimate of timber in these nine trees is 3,200 cubic feet of 

 the very best quality for naval architecture. It is remarkable, that though 

 the\ must be of a great age, no symptoms of decay appear in the growth 

 of tiiese trees ; they are perfectly sound and free from blemish*. 



6th. Damp clayey soil incumbent on clay. 



Coarse siliceous gravel . . . .60 



Fine sand .... . 120 



table matter, destructible by fire . . .9 



Carbonate of lime . . . .15 



Silica, or earth of flints . . . 130 



Alumina, or pure clay . . . .48 



Oxide of iron . . .10 



Soluble saline matter, with vegetable extract, and gypsum . 8 



400 



The oak, elm, ash, and hornbeam attain to greater perfection here than 



any other kind of forest-tree. The tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) grows 



\ on this soil when it is properly prepared by trenching. The 



>\ay spruce, pinaster, and Weymotlth pine appear to be the only 



specie* of the resinous tribe of trees that make tolerable growth on a soil of 



the nature above described. 



* Lord <"o wj.or's IVnsanger Park oak, near Hertford, grows in a clay and sand soil 

 Or sandy l<>am. 



In 1814, tbe stem of'tbis ' . lei't high . . fi'J9 feet 



t long . . . . . .67 



69G 

 Other limbs measured .... . 2 ( JO 



986 



Tbis tree was again 'measured in m2f>, and Imd increased to 1100 (Vet cubic measure. 

 ilrst length of tbe tree, up to tl.e iirst branch, is 17 feet, and 19 ftet 6 inches in cir- 

 cumference, measuring iu cubic contents about 400 feet. ' 



