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thirty feet high, and from three feet to three feet six in 

 girth, the expense is not found to be more than 12s. 6d. 

 This is as accm^ate an estimate as can be made of the 

 present expense of transfernng park wood, at this place, 

 with expert workmen — which must necessarily vary as the 

 size increases, or as the rate itself is varied by circum- 

 stances, or controlled by unavoidable and unforeseen acci- 

 dents. But I have scarcely known an instance in which 

 plants of the largest size in question cost from 15 s. to 18 s. 

 Estimates of the particulars, for both sizes, may be given 

 as follows : — 



For a Tree from fifteen to eighteen feet high, with Lime Compost. 

 Preparation of the pit, as above, . . .£008 



Three cart-loads of compost, at 6d. . . . 0 16 



Three workmen taking up, half a day, at Is. 6d. . 0 2 3 



Transporting and planting, say . . . 0 2 1 



£0 6 6 



For a Tree from five-and-twenty to thirty/ feet high, with Dung Compost. 

 Preparation of the pit, . . . .£008 



Three cart-loads of compost, at 9d. . . . 0 2 3 



Three workmen taking up, a day, at Is. 6d. . . 0 4 6 



Transporting and planting, say . . . 0 5 1 



£0 12 6 



Of these composts it is understood, that they are to be 

 made up in the manner already directed in section VI. pp. 

 139, 140; the lime compost at from one-fifth to one-sixth 

 part of the lime to four or five sixths of the peat, accor- 

 ding to the weather and the state of the materials. The 

 dung compost is to be mixed according to the judicious 

 directions of the late Lord Meadowbank, with important 



