64 MODES OF FOREST PLANTING. 
The largest description of plants that are inserted by notch 
planting, and fit for rough ground, with rank herbage, where 
thé soil is soft and adapted for being notched with the common 
garden spade, generally costs, per acre, including planting, as 
follows :— 
2000 two-year transplanted native Scotch pine, £0 16 0 
1000 two-year seedling, one year transplanted, 
larch, . : : : : ; ? 0 7 +O 
Notch planting with the common spade, .. 0 7 «0 
£1 10 O 
The expense of notch planting varies much, and depends on 
the quality of the ground, and the roughness or smoothness 
of the herbage. In soft smooth heath soil, a person practised 
to the hand-iron will insert from 3000 to 4000 plants in a 
day of ten hours; and the expense of labour only, in notch- 
ing plants with this implement, seldom exceeds 3s. or 4s. per 
imperial acre. Planting with the common spade, either by 
th single notch or cross-cut system, is generally double the 
price of planting by the hand-iron. In other cases, where the 
herbage has to be cleared off, or where the ground is dis- 
turbed by a pick, or the spots dug over by the spade before 
the plant is inserted, the expense is still greater, in proportion 
to the state of the soil, the labour bestowed, and the rate of 
wages obtained by workmen in the locality. 
It is usual to look over plantations of this description after 
the second or third year of their growth, and to make up all 
marked deficiencies. It is not necessary to fill up every spot 
where a dead plant is found; but all such places as are not 
possessed of a sufficient number to furnish the ground, so that 
they will readily form a cover on the surface, should be 
replanted. 
