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work being heavier and requiring stronger persons to 

 do it. 



When the ground was bare of herbage a notch was 

 simply made, and the plant put into the ground an 

 inch deeper than it stood in the nursery ground. On 

 the other hand, when the herbage was rank and the 

 turf matted, the spade was employed to clear or pare 

 it off. This entailed about one-fourth additional ex- 

 pense, and in some places nearly a third ; but the 

 advantages arising from the practice warranted the 

 additional expense, as thereby the roots of the plants 

 were at once admitted to the sand or gravel under- 

 neath without burying the stem of the plant too 

 deeply, which always proves hurtful, and often fatal. 

 When the paring system was practised one woman 

 put in plants to two men, effecting a saving of 5d. 

 per day, which was accredited to the paring system, 

 thus so far reducing the expense attending it. 



Not more than 2 per cent of deaths occurred 

 amongst the Scots pine during the first two years 

 after planting, after which period they are considered 

 beyond risk ; while about 1 per cent of larches per- 

 ished during the same period, and still continue to 

 decay, though not to such an extent. The cause of 

 failure in the larch was evidently either coldness or 

 hardness of soil, as the parts where it degenerated 

 were either cold moss or hard pan. 



The following is a statement of the expenditure 

 originally incurred in making the enclosure : 



Fences 



5680 yards turf dyke at 4d. per yard, 106 10 

 5680 yards one-bar paling and posts 



at Id. per yard, . . . . 23 13 4 



Carry forward, . . 130 3 4 



