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plants ; and probably the ground may require 

 plants which have been one year nurfed to be 

 planted in it. Thefe larger plants cannot be fo 

 eafily fet as the feedlings above mentioned ; 

 and the plants themfelves muft coft a good deal 

 more money ; or, which is the fame thing, mufl 

 require a much longer time in the nurfery, and 

 much more labour to prepare them for fuch a 

 purpofe. Yet, with all thefe enhancing circum- 

 ftances, the price of furniihing fuch trees, and 

 planting an acre with them, cannot advance the 

 fum per acre much above 4!. Sterling, allowing 

 4000 trees to an acre. 



Now, this will be found but a very fmall fum, 

 when compared with the value of fuch a planta- 

 tion after a certain period of years. For, fuppof- 

 ing the expenfe of planting a Scots acre to be the 

 fum of - L. 4 o 



And the fencing, by fome of the eafy 

 methods recommended in this work, 

 to be o 15 Q 



The amount of thefe fums, improved 

 for 30 years, at the rate of 5 per 

 cent, compound intereft, will be 20 12 9 

 And valuing the annual rent of an acre 

 of fuch land at 58., and that fum im- 

 proved as above, it will amount to 1612 c 



Carryover L. 42 o, 



