

WOODS AND PLANTATIONS. 357 



30,000 hardwoods. 

 242,000 larch as nurses. 



And to plant the high-lying hundred acres, will require, say 



150,000 larch. 

 150,000 Scots pine. 



I have calculated the hardwood at twelve feet apart, with larch mixed 

 amongst them to four feet apart ; and the larch and Scots pine are also 

 taken at four feet apart. This will therefore require, in all 



30,000 hardwood, 

 392000 larch, and 

 150,000 Scots pine 



to ie produced, and to come from the nursery annually ; being a total 

 of 572,000 plants annually. These plants will occupy nursery-laud as 

 follows : 



Acres. Roods. 



30,000 hardwood, 2 



say 400,000 larch, .2 2 



150,000 pine, 1 



4 



Four acres is therefore the extent of land required to furnish each year's 

 planting of two hundred acres ; but then we have to consider that the 

 larch and Scots pine require to stand two years in the nursery before 

 they can be fit to plant out into the plantations. Instead, therefore, of 

 three acres and two roods being required for this, it will take one acre 

 more that is, it will take in all, for larch and pines, four and a half 

 acres. This extra acre is required for the rearing of seedlings as a suc- 

 cession of crop. This is the plan we have usually taken, and it does 

 very well. We purchase the seedlings from some respectable nursery- 

 man, and plant or lay them out at such distances as to stand one year 

 only. We then remove these seedlings after being in the ground one 

 year, when they are of the age termed one-year seedling one year trans- 

 planted, and put them out, and give them more room between the rows, 

 and in the rows amongst themselves. 



Then in regard to the hardwoods, they will have to stand three years 

 in the nursery before they can be removed to the plantations ; this will 

 therefore require three successive crops of hardwood trees to be con- 

 stantly in the nursery that is to say, 30,000 one-year seedlings, 

 30,000 two years old, and 30,000 three years old, the latter to 

 come out each year. Each succession of hardwoods will require two 

 roods to give them ample room ; this will give one and a half acre 

 under hardwood trees in each year. Besides the quantity of land 



