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well, a plantation of seventy years' growth 

 having yielded a clear profit of over 69 per 

 acre. At Cooper's Hill Park a small planta- 

 tion of the tree turned out quite a success, 

 the trees being tall, straight, and the wood of 

 excellent quality. There are fine trees at 

 Gwydyr Castle, in Wales, five of which contain 

 fully 1,200 feet of timber. At Coworth Park, 

 near Sunningdale, many of the Wey mouths 

 are over 100 feet high, and with ponderous 

 trunks that carry their thickness so well that 

 the stem diameter at 30 feet in height is little 

 less than at ground level. They are growing 

 in company with the beech, a guide to planters. 

 In the woods at Woburn Abbey and elsewhere 

 the Weymouth pine has reproduced its kind 

 from self-sown seedlings, which augurs well. 



Home-grown timber is of excellent quality, 

 being light, clean, and easily worked, and 

 under the name of white pine is largely im- 

 ported to this country. I consider the Wey- 

 mouth a valuable tree for afforesting purposes 

 where soil conditions are favourable, and for 

 the production of straight, clean timber it has 



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