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executors to carry on his business, or he may be obliged to re- 

 move, either from getting into difficulties, or from some less dis- 

 agreeable cause. Therefore a lease is but a delusion as security, 

 unless it contains compensation clauses or embodies a right of 

 consignment. Moreover, a lease never affords adequate security 

 unless it is a very long one, even if the holder of it farms it out. 

 Even then, at the end of the lease, the improving tenant — or 

 rather, the law — hands over to the landlord property which 

 rightly belongs to himself. 



It is not necessary to say before my present audience that the 

 expense of orchard planting is no light one, or to point out that 

 some years must elapse before the planter can hope to obtain a 

 satisfactory return on his outlay. Probably there is no gentle- 

 man here who could not tell me a great deal more about the cost 

 of planting than I can tell him. But as there may be readers of 

 this paper who are not experts, and who may like to have the 

 estimates of experts on the cost of planting different kinds of 

 fruit, I submit such estimates. There is no lack of them in 

 print ; but most of those in my possession are two, three, or 

 more years old, and expenses vary with the times. I therefore 

 asked Mr. Charles Whitehead to give me his estimate for the 

 present time, and I have to thank him, a busy man — though for 

 that matter, busy men are generally the most obliging in afford- 

 ing information — for kindly complying with my request. In 

 giving Mr. Whitehead's estimates, I must point out that they do 

 not include the cost of preparing the land, or any portion of the 

 rent, tithe, rates, and labour expenses after planting which fall 

 due before the trees come into profit. 



Cost of Planting One Acre of Fruit. 



£ s. d. £ s. d. 



Standard Apple Trees, 22 ft. apart (90 trees) 6 



Planting and staking 2 17 6 



8 17 6 



Plums or Damsons, 18 ft. apart (134 trees) 7 15 



Planting and staking 3 15 



11 10 



Apples and Plums mixed, 20 ft. apart (108 trees) ... 7 

 Planting and staking ... ... ... ... ... 3 5 



10 5 



Bush Fruit Trees and Apples, 1,440 to the acre, 5^ ft. 



apart, at 13s. per 100 9 



Planting bush trees 2 15 



90 apples, and planting and staking 8 17 6 



20 12 6 



Bush Fruit with Plums or Damsons— 1,440 bush fruit 



trees 9 



Planting ditto 2 15 



134 Plum or Damson Trees, and planting and staking 11 15 



23 10 



