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land, and planting, will require a proper skilful 

 manager to superintend the work, &c. which will 

 cost at least L.60 annually. If a plantation of firs, 

 should the situation be much exposed, they must be 

 planted at distances of four feet, plant from plant ; 

 at ten years, thinned out to eight feet, which sup- 

 pose wholly of larch, as the bark is in considera- 

 ble request, will bring, after paying the expense of 

 thinning, from L.5 to L.7 per acre ; at twenty 

 years, thinned out to sixteen feet, at which dis- 

 tance larch may stand till forty years old ; which 

 thinnings at twenty years, will pay at least L.25 

 per acre. As it is to be understood the worst and 

 dwarfish trees are always to be taken, the crop on 

 the ground at twenty years will be worth fully that 

 amount. At forty years old, when the larch firs 

 is fit for almost any purpose as timber, and if the 

 growths are ordinary good, will average at least 

 twenty feet a tree, will be worth L.300 per acre. 

 If planted with oaks, to be converted into a natu- 

 ral oak coppice, cut over from the plant at fifteen 

 years old ; supposing oak bark to sell at L.14 per 

 ton, the first cutting will bring from L.30 to L.40 

 per acre ; and for every twenty or twenty-four 

 years after cuttings, from L.100 or L.150 per 

 acre. This may vary a little according as the 

 ground may not in every acre of it carry the num- 

 ber of plants, trees, or stools without blanks. By 

 having yearly cuttings, very ordinary wood-lands 

 will pay an annual rent of from L.5 to L.10 per 

 acre, from natural oak, for any length of time 

 without the expense of planting, but keeping good 

 the fences, — and firs by planting every forty years. 



