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Mr M'Gregor, who has charge of the Duke of Athole's 

 woods and forests, has furnished the following details, 

 which will bring down the information as to costs to 

 date : 



" We may presume from the above that seedlings 

 cost the planter 4s. per 1200 in his private nurseries. 

 Very little seed has been ripened in Scotland during 

 the last two years, and the cost of the common conifers 

 has arisen considerably in consequence. The usual 

 price charged by nurserymen is 10s. or 12s. per 1000 

 for larch plants, two-years' seedlings and two years 

 transplanted, and 8s. or 9s. if one year transplanted. 

 The number required per acre is from 2500 to 3000. 

 A man can plant 1000 or 1200 plants a-day, aided 

 by a woman, girl, or boy. The expense of planting 

 will therefore be about 9s. or 10s. per acre, instead of 

 2s. 7d., as in the above estimate, and the plants will 

 cost 25s. or 30s., instead of about 5s. lOd. increased 

 afterwards to about 9s. in the process of ' making 

 good.' Since 1847 the prices of labour have risen 

 in the district under notice. Female labour has risen 

 from lOd. a-day to Is. 6d. ; men who received from 

 Is. 6d. to 2s. a-day as wood labourers during several 

 years since 1847, now receive from 14s. to 16s. 

 a-week." 



No. 2. Report on Extensive Planting. By James 

 Brown, jun., Craigmill, Stirling (Scottish Arbori- 

 cultural Society's Transactions, 1871): 

 " Auchtabhan Plantation. This plantation forms 

 part of the extensive estate of Invercauld, belonging 

 to Colonel James Eoss Farquharson, and is situated in 

 the county of Aberdeen. 



" It was enclosed with a wire fence, which, from 



