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mefne, &c. or when the works of the demefne fhould 

 be brought to fuch perfection, as to be able to under- 

 take the intended plantations throughout the eftates. 



At this time (1802) the demefne and its appendages 

 are fo far advanced, that the planting of about fifty 

 acres would complete the whole, and this in grouping 

 and (lender plantations, as finifliing touches, the great 

 maflive planting being all completed. 



It is not eafy to fay with accuracy, how many acres 

 there are of folid planting, as every feafon there arc 

 more or lefs planted, which never fall within the pre- 

 mium planting, or that reported to the Dublin Society. 

 I am fure I may not be far from the truth if I fay five 

 hundred acres ; though, by taking a fuperficial view, 

 it would appear as if one half of the whole extent had 

 been planted ; but this circumftance is owing to the 

 {welling and undulating difpofition of all the grounds, 

 both in the demefne and its environs. 



This account may ferve to ihew, what induftry 

 and perfeverance can do in a fhort time. Twenty- 

 two years back, from the prefent year (1802), may 

 be confidered the commencement of the improve- 

 ments ; and, for progrefs, and high prefervation, I 

 am fure they are equal to any in the united king- 

 dom. Raifing flicker, judicioufly improving the 

 foils, planting out young, and adapting the plants to 

 the foils and afpefts, were the great objefts to attend 

 to, and which were the principal means of the rapid 



progrefs, 



