280 



For a tree from Fifteen to Eighteen feet high, with lime-compost. 



Preparation of the pit, as above, . . . . £0 8 



Three cart-loads of compost, at 6d 16 



Three workmen taking up, half a day, at Is. 6d. . . 2 3 



Transporting and planting, say 2 1 



£0 6 6 



For a tree from Five-and-Twenty to Thirty feet high, with dung- 

 compost. 



Preparation of the pit £0 8 



Three cart-loads of compost, at 9d. . . . . 2 3 



Three workmen taking up, a day, at Is. 6d. . . 4 6 



Transporting and planting, say 0.5 1 



£0 12 6 



Of these composts it is understood, that they are to be 

 made up, in the manner aheady directed in Sect. VI. pp. 

 186., 187. ; the hme-compost, at from one fifth to one sixth 

 part of the hme, to four or five sixths of the peat, according 

 to the weather, and the state of the materials. The dung- 

 compost is to be mixed, according to the judicious directions 

 of the late Lord Meadovvbank, with important improvements 

 which experience has suggested, and which are detailed in 

 the Notes referring to the above passages. 



In respect to close-woods, it is to be observed, that the ex- 

 pense of removing the trees which compose them, if of the 

 heights just now mentioned, is necessarily much less than 

 the cost of such, as would suit the open park. The former 

 possess the non-protecting properties, especially small tops, 

 and correlative roots ; hence, they are far more easily trans- 

 ferred than the others. For close-woods, for obvious reasons, 

 subjects will always be chosen, that are endued with the 

 non-protecting properties ; and therefore, the expense of 

 removing them half a mile, as already mentioned, does not 



