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probable period and value of the thinnings, and the 

 annual charges of management; this calculation 

 being with a view to ascertain the earliest probable 

 return from the soil ? 



Answer. — On light sandy soils, the larch and 

 the spruce, of the fir tribe, can be reared, and will 

 come to maturity as timber trees. If the sub-soil 

 is of light sand and not very deep, and turning to 

 clay below, the Scotch elm, ash, and plane, of 

 the hard wood tribe, will come to maturity as tim- 

 ber trees ; and the oak for coppice, if the soil is 

 once made by the larch firs, as described in my 

 Forester's Guide, will do extremely well when 

 properly managed. On the gravelly clays, &c. 

 the oak, Spanish chesnut, and the Scotch elm 

 (which is next to the oak, and is used for ship- 

 building,) will come to maturity as timber trees. 

 After the nursery is estabhshed, the expense of 

 plants and planting each acre with all kinds, will 

 be from S2s. to 30s. The expenses of enclosing 

 will be as in reply to Query First ; say from 6s. to 

 7s. 6d. if with stone ; and hedge, &c. from 4s. 6d. 

 to 6s. per rood. If the plantation be in large clus- 

 ters, the enclosing will be very trifling per acre ; if 

 they are detached in small clusters, the expense 

 will be the greater ; but the exact expense will be 

 easily ascertained by measuring the line of fence 

 round the different plantations. I have, however, 

 seen some plantations, when of considerable ex- 

 tent, enclosed at the rate of 5s. per acre ; there is 

 often a great saving by judiciously laying off the 

 enclosures. The nursery, enclosing the wood- 



