ON SEA-SIDE PLANTING. 101 
I had garden and some field upright fences made, which 
lasted substantially for four years. During the last six years 
I have had all the ordinary flake-palings I required for the 
farm made from trees in the older part of the wood,—I 
should say at the least to the value of £10 or £12 annually. 
In addition to this, I find from my book that within the same 
period (six years) I have received for props £235, 9s. 6d., 
and have expended for thinning, etc. etc., £69, 16s. 4d.” 
Although the cost of the formation of this plantation cannot 
be exactly ascertained, yet it is quite clear, from the cost of 
otHer plantations adjoining (which will be immediately shown), 
that the returns already realized are sufficient to pay all out- 
lay, and interest at a high rate, up to the present time ; even 
supposing the outlay in its formation to have been three or 
four times the usual rate, which some small spots, that were 
covered with grassy surface, together with the fences, may 
have occasioned. 
The present money value of the oldest part of this planta- 
tion is not less than £30 an acre; and although other parts 
are as yet of less value, on the whole, during the next twenty 
or thirty years, the thinnings will pay the current rate of in- 
terest on that amount, with every prospect of the timber in 
the plantation increasing very much in value per acre during 
the period. This is a moderate estimate of the value of the 
plantation, yet it is clear that it will in future yield a re- 
venue equal at least to that of ordinary arable land; and 
beyond this the proprietor has fully realized the primary object 
of its formation, namely, ornament, shelter, and a sure pro- 
tection against sand-drift. 
The success of the Kincorth plantations while they were 
only a few years old induced the proprietor of Moy, whe 
owns several thousand acres of the adjoining sands of Culbin, 
to form plantations thereon. 
Plantations on Culbin belonging to Moy estate—In the begin- 
ning of winter 1840 I planted on these sands 199 imperial 
acres with Scotch fir and larch, at the following cost per 
acre :— 
