368 THE BOOK OF THE LANDED ESTATE. 



Specification of the Plants and Manner of Planting ike 



Wood, lying on the Estate of , County of 



Northumberland. 



The land to be planted extends to two hundred and thirty acres or 

 thereby. The surface is undulating, and covered with heath, with low- 

 lying portions of grass. 



The soil is generally of a sandy gravelly loam. On the grassy spots 

 the soil is a light loam. The plants to be used on the gravelly sandy 

 loam are Scots pine aiid larch, with hardwood in the lower spots, and 

 are to be put in according to the following quantities and ages : 



Three thousand five hundred and fifty-six plants per acre, three and 

 a half feet apart one-half to be Scots pine and the other half larch. The 

 Scots pine to be strong welt-rooted plants, and to be of the age called 

 one-year seedling two years transplanted. 



The larch to be strong and well rooted, and of the size called one-year 

 seedling one year transplanted. 



The Scots pine and the larch to be put in by the notch ; care to be 

 taken to have the roots properly covered, the spade-cuts closely pressed 

 together, and the plants all firmly fixed. 



Hardwood plants of oak, sycamore, and ash, of sizes about two feet 

 high, to be planted in the hollow grassy spots in pits made fifteen inches 

 square and one foot deep. The turf or sod to be laid on with .the grass 

 surface down. 



All the plants supplied to be well grown, healthy, and with plenty 

 of fibrous roots, and none to be sunk in the ground beyond the nursery 

 mark. 



The contractors to be at all expenses of supplying the plants, carriage 

 of plants to the plantation, and the planting of them. 



And also the contractors to keep up the plantation for two years 

 from the date of finishing it that is to say, all deaths and blanks will 

 be filled up by them at their sole expense, and with the kinds of trees 

 described. 



The plants to be furnished, and all the work to be conducted and com- 

 pleted, to the approval of of , whose decision 

 shall be binding on all parties in case of any differences arising either 

 as to the terms of agreement or as to the work to be executed. The 

 work to be commenced by the 27th day of October 1865, and completed 

 by the 20th day of March 1866. 



Estimates will be received per imperial acre, including the cost of 

 plants and all other expenses. 



