SCIENTIFIC NEWS. 233 



lis February and March, 180Q. In Feb. and March, 1910. Total. 



Blak Italian poplars. .500* «... . 1000 1500 



Hunting-Ion willows. . 1000 1000 2000 



Ash 6000 5000 11000 



Oaks , 12000 10000 22000 



Scotch firs 45000 480 93000 



Birch 8800 8000, .16800 



Larch 10000 .-20000 30000 



Spruce... 10000 20000 30000 



Alders 1800 10000 1 1800 



Sycamoies 660 660 „ 



95760 123000 218/60 



The first plantation was 36 acres, 3 rods, 10 perches; the 

 second, 42 acre9, 1 rod. The whole is well fenced with 

 sod walls, five feet high and three feet and half thick. 



The gold medal was also adjudged to Win. Congreve, Premium for 

 Esq., of Aldermaston house, Berkshire, for planting larcn8S « 

 377520 larches, be ; ngthe premium offered in class V0. He 

 planted 108 acres in rows 3 feet asunder, and the plants at 

 the same distance: 50 acres with the trees six feet asunder 

 each way, except near the ontsides, where they were only 

 three feet ; and 32 acres with the trees four feet distant each 

 way, which distance he thinks preferable to any other. It is 

 his intention to extend his plantations to 500 or 600 acres. 

 Several of the last years shoots of a small plantation of 

 larch, made in 1806, exceeded three feet in length, and one 

 was three feet nine inches. 



The silver medal was voted to Mr. Henry Cowlishaw, of Second pre. 

 Mansfield, for planting 75000 larches, being the premium j arc hes. 

 offered in class II. The land is on Blidsworth forest, part 

 of Sherwood. The following account is in his own words. 



The land being chiefly covered with heath from six to Management 

 eighteen inches high, I caused a piece of the heath sod to be of the plant* 

 pared off with a paring-spade, of a sufficient space to plant 

 the tree in ; and the soil being very thin and near the gravel, 

 1 preferred planting the tree without turning over the soil. 



The season being far advanced, and not having been sooner 

 in possession of the land, I ordered that the roots of the 

 trees should be made wet with water, and then rubbed over 



Vol. XXXIfc— July 1812. R with 



