86 SYLVA FLORIFERA. 



Lov. Loveden, Esq. planted 63,000 on 7 acres 

 9 perches. 



At Belmont, Staffordshire, John Sneyd,Esq. 

 planted 6,000 between the years 1784 and 

 1786. 



At Ambleside, in Westmoreland, Dr. Ri- 

 chard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, planted 

 20,000 on 11 acres, in the year 1788. 



George Ross, Esq. planted 42,000 in Cro- 

 marty. The late Earl of Fife planted no less 

 than 57,500, in the county of Murray, * and 

 his Grace the Duke of Devonshire caused 

 86,514 to be planted on his estates between 

 the years of 1816 and 1819. 



Evelyn tells us, that in his time an ash-tree 

 that had been raised from seed, forty years 

 before, sold for thirty pounds ; and he adds, 

 " I have been credibly informed, that one 

 person hath planted so much of this one sort 

 of timber in his lifetime, as hath been valued 

 worth fifty thousand pounds to be bought. 

 These (says he) are pretty encouragements 

 for a small and pleasant industry." 



Mr. Boutcher has given an instance of the 

 great profit of an ash plantation, in a small 

 experiment, which he thus relates : " On half 

 a rood of heavy meadow, chiefly barren red 

 clay and moss, I planted ash trees six years 



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