350 FOREST PLANTATIONS* 



\vhiii hedges, as recommended under the article 

 Fences for laft month j which fee. Such fences 

 will, with a very little help, prove a defence a- 

 gainft the inroads of cattle* till the trees to be 

 planted grow beyond the reach of harm. 



Suppofe it, then, to be fixed upon to plant fuch 

 grounds with Scotch Fir plants, which are two- 

 year feedlings, and to plant at the rate of five 

 thoufand on a Scots acre ; and fuppofmg that 

 thefe coft 2S. 6d. per thoufand; then will, the 

 plants for an acre coft 125. 6d. Suppofing that 

 a man plant an acre, by the diamond-pointed 

 dibble, in two days and a half, which he will per- 

 form with eafe, and eftimating his wages at 2s. 6d. 

 per day *, then will an acre, including the coft of 

 the plants and expenfe of planting, quote the 

 fum of 1 8s. 9d. The contingencies of carriage, 

 &c. may be prefumed to make this fum one pound 

 Sterling. The burthen of planting an hundred 

 or two hundred acres of fuch land cannot be 

 reckoned intolerable. But even fuppofmg that a 

 fourth part of the trees to be ufed were to be 

 one-year feedling Larches, regularly difpofed over 

 the grounds, then would the expenfe of planting au 

 acre amount only to the fum of 2 6s. ; which, we 

 prefume, is a fum too inconfiderable to be an op 

 preflion to almoft any landed proprietor. And 

 when we take into account the vaft increafe of 

 value that even fuch woods would add to the e- 



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