102 ON SEA-SIDE PLANTING. 
1800 one-year transplanted native 
Highland pine, : £0 3 8 
1000 two-year seedling, do., 0 1 8 
800 two-year do, larch, 0 2 0 
Carriage from Forres nurseries, 0 0 3 
Planting, 0 3 2 
199 acres, at £0 10 4 £102 16 4 
Building fences and planting about 
25 acres by the proprietor, ; ‘ 97 14 9 
In January and February 1842, I added to the ° 
above plantation seventy-four acres, but al- 
lowed only 3200 plants per acre, thus :— 
2200 two-year seedling and trans- 
planted native Highland pine, £0 3 3 
1000 two-year-old larches, . 0 2 6 
Carriage from Forres nurseries, 0 0 2 
Planting, . ‘ ; : 0 2 10 
74 acres, at £0 8 9 32 7 6 
Making in all 298 acres, amounting to . £232 18 7 
It will be observed that the expense of these plantations is 
unusually small. This. arises from several circumstances. 
The ground being soft, with little or no surface herbage, ren- 
dered it suitable for small plants which were planted by the 
hand-iron, by people in the vicinity much practised in the 
work, and who could plant an acre each daily on such ground 
without difficulty. The plantations were also made at a time 
when the price of nursery plants was under the usual rate. 
The expense of fencing these plantations was also very small : 
only a part of the south and western boundary required pro- 
tection, and that is enclosed by a turf wall five feet high. The 
east end is fenced by the Kincorth plantations ; the north is 
bounded by a vast extent of pure undulated sands, with a sur- 
face destitute of vegetation, and bearing only the wavy ripple 
of the wind, except where a clump of bent grass here and 
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