80 PLANTING. 



high average, but larch plants were high priced; besides, 

 the clearing of the ground and planting cannot be 

 taken as a fair estimate of what that sort of work 

 should cost, for, as before mentioned, most of the men 

 were totally unaccustomed to the work." 



Eobert E. Brown, Wass, Yorkshire, in a Eeport to the 

 Highland and Agricultural Society, says : — 



"'No. 4. The mode of Planting adopted. — AU the 

 plants used were put in the soil by the system of 

 notching. One portion of the plantation was planted 

 in 1857, another in 1858, and the other and remain- 

 ing portion in the year following. The weather during 

 the time the planting operations were going on was 

 varied, as from the large extent of land to be planted 

 the operation extended over the autumn and spring of 

 each of the years referred to. There were generally 

 sharp frosts in the mornings, which prevented the 

 planting being done when this occurred. The work- 

 men were, in these cases, put to the draining opera- 

 tions, and as soon as the soil was sufficiently soft, 

 planting was proceeded with. 



" The kind of Trees planted. — The trees planted were 

 larch, Scots pine, and spruce. On the highest points 

 of the plantation, where the soil was thin and the 

 position exposed, Scots pine alone were planted at 3^ 

 feet apart, or at the rate of 3500 per acre. On the 

 lower portions, where there was a great depth of earth, 

 and of better quality, Scots pine were inserted at 

 8 feet apart, and filled up with larch to 4 feet apart 

 over all, or at the rate of 2700 per acre. Where the 

 soil was peat, a mixture of spruce, fir, and Scots pine 

 was used. 



