IMPOETANT LOCAL PLANTING. 



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£120, Is. 9d. -f 20 acres = £6, Os. Id. per acre nearly. 



N"o. 9. The following statement appeared in the 

 ' Journal of Forestry/ November 1882 : — 



" It is now about forty years since I began to plant, 

 and with the exception of the year 1846, I have 

 planted every season more or less since then. Dur- 

 ing that time I have contracted for and had the 

 charge of planting about 9000 acres, principally in 

 Aberdeenshire, and all this has been done with the 

 " hand-iron." ^ The number of plants used has been 

 from 3000 to 3500 per acre, so that that extent of 

 ground has required about thirty millions of plants, 

 the sixth part of which, or five millions, have been 

 planted with my own hand. During the first twenty 

 years the plants used were all two-year-old seedlings, 

 and the cost of planting, including plants and carriage 

 of plants, was from 12 s. to 14s. per acre. The lowest 

 rate at which I ever planted was 10s. per acre, and 



that was for about 200 acres on the hill of H , 



in the parish of L . This plantation, which is 



now in a very thriviag state, was planted with two- 



' For a description of the " hand-iron," see ' Grigor's Arboriculture,' 

 p. 54. 



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