CULTURE FOR PROFIT. 



plough following it rooting up this plantation, which has 

 cost a very large expenditure of time and money to pro- 

 duce. When it is considered that the produce of the 

 plantation in question realized in the present year up- 

 wards of 1,690, and that the plantation was vigorous 

 and in full bearing, some idea may be formed of the 

 sacrifice of property involved." 



In some cases the landlord will agree to pay the value 

 of a plantation at the expiration of the tenancy ; but if 

 fruit be planted to any large extent, compensation at the 

 termination of a long lease might mean such a serious 

 matter, that a landlord may well hesitate before com- 

 mitting himself or his heirs to such a heavy and uncertain 

 charge. 



The most satisfactory arrangement seems to be for the 

 landlord to find the trees, and the tenant to find the 

 labour, and prepare the ground for planting. It is, of 

 course, to their mutual interest to select good trees of the 

 right varieties, and to plant and cultivate them properly. 

 It is also especially to the interest of the tenant to main- 

 tain and cultivate them well, in order to realize the best 

 return from them in the shortest possible time, and he 

 will be naturally anxious to continue his tenancy as long 

 as possible in order to reap the full benefit of his first 

 outlay ; and the landlord is thus likely to secure a good 

 thriving tenant, and to see his property considerably 

 increasing in value. There is then at the expiration of 

 the tenancy no vexed question respecting valuation and 

 compensation. 



An instance came under my notice a short time since 

 of a landlord who some years ago expended about 20 

 an acre in planting apples for a tenant, upon land which 

 previously let for 1 per acre. The land has now for 



