82 I'l.VXT! 



thers again argue, that for every purpose of 



])rivato ami ; (vantage, the latter ia immeasurably superior. The 



trn: tin- feet is, neither of the two can profitably exist 



without the aid of the oilier, and the question becomes then narrowed to 

 that f the proportions in \vhich each should stand to the other. This 

 point, however, has already lucn discussed as far as the limits of these 

 unit, and it may be further only necessary to add, that the produce 

 : in the United Kingdoms is very far from being sufficient to meet 

 the demand for it. From a report of a select committee of the House of 

 Lords, relative to the timber trade, made in 18:20, it appears that the 

 a\rrauv quantity of foreign timber and deals imported into Great Britain 

 during the four preceding years, -amounted to 3:22,069 loads ; the duty 

 alone on which, in the last year of that average, 1819, amounted to 

 1,OU),:H1/. l s v \\'l. The statements of extraordinary profits from wood- 

 [fl mu-t be considered rather of a local than of a general interest; 

 that of Lord Barham's chestnut plantation in Kent, which at nine years 

 Nth afforded a produce for hop-poles, which sold for 104/f. per acre; a 

 plantation of larch, for the same purpose, but on a soil not worth more 

 tha?i from o\. to 7.s. per acre, for cultivation, produced at the rate of 91/. 

 per acre*. Of the willow, oak, &c. numerous instances of the like great 

 profits misfit be adduced. 



ral otimate of the profits arising from forest- planting may not 

 be uninteresting, the opinions of three professional planters of considerable 



i ience on the subject are here mentioned. 



Mr. l*onte\ of I Inddersfield, the author of several esteemed treatises on 

 planting, .states, that from careful calculations of what might be reasonably 

 expected from an acre of land suitable in itself, tolerably favourably situated, 

 and in every respect well managed as a plantation of larch, the result is, 

 a net profit after paying for the rent of the laud and every ordinary ex- 



of' much nearer five than four hundred pounds in forty-two years. 

 Mr. Monteath, the well known author of the I'lanlcr'a d'uidr, estimates 

 the entire cost of planting, after the establishment of a nursery, at 2'2s. to 

 80*. per acre, with that of enclosing in large clusters, at about lO.s 1 . The 

 dical returns from an acre of larch only, after payment of the expenses 

 of cutting, he calculates at from 5/. to 1L at the expiration of the first ten 

 . 



at 1. . .,[ ditto second ditto. 



T.'iOO at forty years growth. 



And a^uminir tin ut and annual charges on an acre of light sand 



adapted to the growth of larch to be l:'.v., the amount of profit and loss 

 \\ill stand as follows : 



i'. t. d. 



Enclosing :m d planting . . .200 



uipound intercut at live per cent, during ten 



. 1 12 6 

 C'l per annum, with compound in- 



ti\e per cent, lor ten \. . .7110 



11 3 6 



!uct the medium \alue o! the first tliinniii: 



5 to 7 . . .600 



Balance 536 

 * Kent Report, p. 146, . 



