APPENDIX. 37 ; 



mile, this plan would have been given up, as ftones re- 

 gularly quarried would have come cheaper. 



There is at this time a very material difference be- 

 tween the growth of the trees, where the foil was thus 

 treated, and in fimilar foils, which had no preparation 

 at all. It is at leaft as the proportion of ten to fifteen 

 in favour of the trees where the land was ploughed ; 

 that is, trees planted ten years ago, where the foil was 

 prepared as above, are now (1802) fully as forward as 

 plants put out fifteen years back, without any prepara- 

 tion. How long this great afcendancy may continue 

 to prevail, time only will tell. 



2. Large fcopes of dry, hungry, (hallow foils ; fome 

 almoft covered with broom, furze, and other fponta- 

 neous growths, in a ftate of naturs. But the greater 

 part was formerly occupied by little farmers, who knew 

 that their inheritance was only to be of fhort dura-i 

 tion, and, of courfe, worked out the foil to the loweft 

 ebb. 



To trench or plough foils of the foregoing defcrip- 

 tions was thought unneceffary, as that, of courfe, 

 would only render them Hill lighter, and, confc-t 



quently, unfavourable to planting. 



i 



In the firft cafe, clofets were formed through the na- 

 tive brufh-wood, of different ftiapes and fizes, fo as to 

 contain from ten to thirty plants, more or lefs, at about 

 three feet apart, and often nearer, but fcarcely ever to 

 exceed that diftance. Five thoufand plants to the acre are 



not 



