Cultivation of Grafi-Lcwd. Planting. F ruit Trees*-*-* *]$& 



few of the mo ft ufcful praiVical di regions that can be here brought to the notice 

 of thofe proprietors who haveawidi to render their eftates more ornamental and 

 valuable, by the practice of planting tho. c parts of them that dojnpt admit of other 

 modes of culture.* In order to render this fort of management more clear and 

 fa ris factory, we (hall confidcr it as applicable in the cultivation of fruit-trees, timber 

 and coppice, or underwood. 



Fruit Trees The planting of trees for the purpofe of producing fruits of 

 different kinds, in many diilricts, forms a considerable part of the profit of the 

 former. This is the cafe in Hereford mire, Detfonfhire, and other counties where 

 the bufinefs of making cider is carried on in an extenfive manner ; and in the 

 county of Kent fruit-trees are often planted with the intention of deriving profit 

 from the produce. 



In thofe diftricts where cider conftitutes a principal object of the farmer, the 

 planting of apple trees becomes a bufinefs of great importance, and requires par- 



* Asa proof of the great improvement that may he accomplished in ihis way, it is obfervecl by Mr. 

 Pontey, in his ufeful Trad on Planting, (hat an citato of a thoufand acres of mountainous land, 

 ufually termed barren, from the bleaknefs of its fuuation, let for not more than twelve (hillings per 

 acre, would colt at thirty years purchafc eighteen thoufand pounds. If the purchafer expend a thou- 

 fand pounds more in planting and fencing a hundred acres, fo fituated as ultimately to fcreen the whole, 

 allowing compound intereft for that with the accumulating rent of the land for fourteen years,the eftate 

 would then have cod about twenty-one thoufand two hundred pounds ; and the account for it, with, 

 fourteen years beyond that period may be ftated as under; 



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Paid for the eftate - 18,000 



9CO acres improved by flieltcr,3s, per acre, at 30 years purchafe 4,050 



Value of 200,000 trees (chiefly larch) at 6d. 5,000 



Eftate worth at the end of fourteen years - 27,050 



Coft, as before mentioned, about - 2 1 ,200 



Improvement by planting ... 5,850 



Do. by trees, in 14 years more, at Is. each - - 10,000 



15,850 

 Deduct for rent of 100 acres, at 601. per annum, with compound intereft, 



about ..... 1,175 



Eftate improved by planting, in 28 years - - 14,675 



It is added, that in forming thefe calculations full allowance has been made for the expofure of 

 fituation, as it is not uncommon to fee larch worth as much money in half the time, but probably if 

 the whole were fuffe red to remain to the end of the term, the improvement might not be fo great ; yet 



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