Common Oak 



In New Forest, Aldridge Hill, planted 1813:— 



305 



I St acre 

 2nd ,, 

 3rd „ 

 4th „ 



In Alice Holt Woods :— 



Lodge Enclosure 

 Goose Green 

 Berewoods, planted 1816 



In Dean Forest : — 



Blakeney Hill, South, planted 1814 

 Nag's Head Plantation 

 Bromley Hill Plantation ,, 1812 

 High Meadow Woods (no date stated), 



I St acre . . . . 



High Meadow Woods (no date stated), 



2nd acre 



87 



57 

 84 



214 

 207 



In Richmond Park : — 



Upper Pond, planted 1824 



Kingston Hill, ,, 1826 



Isabella, ,, 1831 



Isabella, ,, 1845 



81 



75 

 54 

 49 



In the same volume Mr. Ralph Glutton, in an excellent paper on the self-sown 

 oak woods of Sussex, gives many exact details of the growth of oak without under- 

 wood, with measurements and valuations, which should be consulted by all land- 

 owners in that part of England. 



Under more favourable circumstances, however, oak plantations may yield a 

 good profit, as shown by the following extract from the Norfolk Chronicle, sent me by 

 Sir Hugh Beevor, and printed in Grigor's Eastern Arboretum, p. 360. 



" Being enabled from old memoranda of undoubted authority, and from 

 information received several years ago from different persons, who remembered or 

 who assisted in the work, to give you, perhaps, an unusually accurate account of the 

 produce of a piece of land measuring eight acres, planted with acorns in the year 

 1729, I take the liberty of so doing, and of requesting your insertion of it in your 

 paper whenever you may have the best opportunity. The piece was under the 

 plough at that time, cold and unprofitable, from the practice of underdraining not 

 being then introduced; at Michaelmas 1729 it was sown with wheat, and acorns 

 dibbled in ; when reaped, the stubble was left very long, which is supposed to have 

 caused the plants to run up very straight. 



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