MARITIME OR SEA-SIDK PLANTING. 55 



doubtable late " Mr John Gregor, nurseryman, Forres, 

 conducted the planting of about 300 acres. The work 

 ■was performed mostly by contract, and executed by 

 two or more separate companies of planters (men and 

 ■women). The men, by themselves, did the most 

 difficult parts, and the women the easier wrought 

 ground. Each person carried his own or her own 

 plants in an apron, and used the small planting spade 

 for nicking or rather opening the sand to admit the 

 plants, which were small. The rates of wages paid to 

 the planters were Is. 6d. to Is. 8d. per day to the 

 men, and 8d. to lOd. per day to the women." 



The plants consisted of Scots pine and larch, put 

 in in various proportions — sometimes one-third larch, 

 and sometimes more than one-half. About 4000 

 plants were put in per acre, and the whole cost an 

 average sum of about 14s. per acre, 'as follows : — 



2000 larch one-year seedlings, one year trans- 

 planted, at 3s. per 1000 . 



2000 native Soots pine one-year seedlings, 

 one year transplanted, at 2s. per 1000, 



Expenses of planting, .... 



Total per acre, 



£0 6 



4 



4 



£0 14 



The writer has frequently been asked to recommend 

 as to the planting of certain unfavourable sites upon 

 the coasts of the Moray Firth; and the following 

 answers to inquiries, after hearing the particulars 

 given, may be serviceable to those requiring to do 

 such work : — 



No. 1. — Full exposure to the German Ocean; slope 

 of ground towards the sea ; no shelter of any kind, 

 either caused by undulations of the ground or herbage ; 

 soil sandy and shifting by the wind. 



