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4ctENTiFlC NEltS; 



SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 



Society for the Encouragement of Arts, fyc. 

 Society of In the year 1808, the gold medal of the Society of Arttf 



Arts, Ac. ^ wa :)f }i u cb>ed to Dr. Bain, of Curzon-street^ for plant- 



Pr.muinisfor . J « . . • 



planting forest ing 338199 forest trees* at Heffleton, in Dorsetshire, in' 



Ue£S ' 1804 and 1805. These were part of more than eight hun- 



dred thousand, that he had planted from 1798 to that time 

 on a h^ath valued to the tenant at Is. an acre per annum, a 

 poor gravelly soil, on a situation rather elevated, and much- 

 exposed to the winds from the seacoatet. Thus encouraged, 

 and the trees for the most part thriving well, the Dr. has 

 pursued his exertions, adding near three hundred thousand- 

 trees more 16 his plantations, on ground not adapted to the 

 purposes of husbandry. The trees are chiefly larch, pi- 

 naster, and Scotch fir ; the last in much the largest pro- 

 portion. The luxuriance of his pinasters in particular show 

 the propriety of planting them as a shelter to other trees. 

 The following table shows the size attained by some of the 

 pinasters and larches in twelve years after planting. The 

 pinasters were seedlings of one year old, planted on very 

 poor ground ; the larches were three years old when planted, 

 and the land of a better quality. 



CIRCUMFERENCE. 



HEIGHT.' 



No. 

 Pinaster. 1 



at the grtmwJ 

 ft inch. 

 3 G 



3 ft. from gid. 

 feet inch. 



2 4 



6 ft. from grd. 



feet inch. 



1 10 



feet inch. 

 20 



3 

 Larch. 1 



2 



3 



2 8 



2 5 



3 

 2 6 

 2 5 



2 



1 10 



2 



4 1 



1 4 

 I 4 

 I 7 

 1 6 

 1 5 



17 o 



18 3 

 24 6 

 23 9 

 23 11 



Premiums for 

 oak>. 



For these plantations a second gold medal was adjudged 

 to Dr. Bain this session. 



The gold medal, being the premium offered in class 3 for 

 raising o:iks, was adjudged to Henry Andrews, Esq., of 

 ■Wnketield; and, in consequence of the death of Mr. An- 

 drews, the medal was presented to his two daughters. The 

 oaks were planted with other trees, and the following is an 

 account of the whole. 



In 



