I8o STATISTICAL SURVEY 



out ; and, of late, cutting out, inflcad of thinning by 

 tranfplanting, took place. 



For the laft twenty years, there never were lefs 

 than fix acres of fair well eftablifhed nurfery at 

 Ra(h, for the fupply of the improvements, &c. By 

 doing the plants full juftice in point of room, an acre 

 may afford annually 20,000 plants, as 40,000 are not 

 too many for an acre, when completely flocked ; fo 

 that, by letting the plants remain two feafons in the 

 nurfery, there may be always an annual fupply of 

 20,000 ; but this muft be underftood of gentlemens* 

 nurferies, who may be fuppofed not fcarce in ground ; 

 but it is quite otherwife with nurfery-men, who com- 

 monly overftock their nurferies, and, of courfe, the 

 plants are too much drawn up for want of room. 



Six acres of nurfery, according to the above ftate- 

 ment, would produce, in twenty years, 2,400,000 

 plants ; and I have fhewn, that 



820,732 trees were planted in the demefne ; 

 100,000 fuppofed to have been given to tenants. 



920,732 , $ j 



This (hews a great difference, between the fuppofed 

 produce of fix acres of nurfery in twenty years, and 

 the number here flated,. which can only be accounted 

 for by the great quantities of trees put out as nur- 

 feries 



