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ARBORETUM AND FRUTJCETUM. 



PART III, 



First Cost per Acre. 



Forming the bed 

 14,000 sets, at II. per 1000 

 Planting, at 3*. per 1000 - 

 Weeding twice the first season 



s. d. 

 

 

 20 

 16 



Total cost the first year j28 18 



Annual Expense per Acre. 



Rent ...... 



Weeding 



Parish rates and fences - - 

 Cutting the rods, at 3s. per score bun- 

 dles of 45 in. girt ... 

 Interest of 28/. 18s., the first cost - 

 Annual filling up of casualties - - 



s. d. 



10 



- 16 



- 10 



4 

 9 

 6 



Produce. 



Annual value of 160 bundles of rods, at is. 

 Total expense per annum .. 



Total expense per annum .4 15 



s. d 



- 10 13 



- 4 15 



Net profit 5 18 



The additional expense of peeling would be about 4</. per acre ; but the rods 

 peeled would have sold at a much higher price in proportion. 



In vol. xxiv. of the same work, an account is given of a willow plantation 

 in Suffolk, in which the ground was ploughed and harrowed ; the expense of 

 which, and of planting the sets, was 21. 2s. per acre ; and the number of sets 

 planted was 12,000 per acre, which cost 10/. The price of cuttings of osiers, 

 in Cambridgeshire, in 1826, was, for S. viminalis, Ss. per thousand, and for the 

 less common kinds, \0s. or 12s. per thousand. Sang mentions inferior soils in 

 Scotland, which have produced from 25/. to 30/. per acre for several years in 

 succession ; the annual expense of cleaning being from 25s. to 35s. per acre, 

 exclusive of cutting, rent, interest of prime cost, and other charges. 



Culture of the Willow for Hedges. The best kinds of willows for hedges are 

 those which belong to S. caprea, because the young shoots of these kinds are 

 most rigid, and are certain of annually ripening their wood ; while the catkins 

 are the most valuable of all others for bees; and the clippings, or trimmings, 

 which should be cut off in August or September, are the most valuable of 

 willow fodder for horses and cattle. Add, also, that this species of willow is 

 one of the most durable and woody kinds, and that when the hedge is cut 

 down it will reproduce itself the same season ; and, with a little assistance 

 from art, become a fence the season following. 



Fences of live Willow are, in some 

 cases, formed by inserting rods of two 

 years' growth, such as are used for 

 making hoops, reduced to the length 

 of 6 ft. ; and 1 ft. or 1 ft. 6 in. being 

 inserted in the soil, a fence is at once 

 produced 4 ft. 6 in. in height. These 

 rods may either be inserted in a ver- 

 tical direction parallel to each other, 

 and 6 in. or 8 in. asunder, as in fig. 1287. ; in a sloping direction parallel to 

 each other, as in fig. 1287. b; or crossing each other at right angles, as in 

 fig. 1286. In the latter case, the rods require, in order to make a fence 



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5ft. 6 in. high, to be cut to the length of 7 ft. or 8 ft. ; but a fence so formed 

 has this advantage, that the rods may be much farther apart than when they 

 are placed either vertically or sloping, and parallel to each other. In the two latter 

 cases, also, a top rod, or rail, is required to unite the ends of the parallel rods: 



