The Locust. 



be taken away. Some gentlemen may wish to send a block 

 to friends who are not in London. If the booksellers who 

 sell the Register in the country, should be applied to for 

 the purpose, by gentlemen in their neighbourhood, a Mock 

 of the wood may be sent to them. There is nothing like 

 seeing in cases like this. 



363. Now let us see what are the inducements to the 

 growing of the Locust. Its use, at the earliest stage, would, 

 perhaps, be hop-poles. The ordinary height of a hop-pole 

 is about fifteen or sixteen feet. To obtain poles of sixteen 

 feet would require, in land worth a pound an acre, annual 

 rent, six years' growth, and no more. You see, that, in my 

 waterside plantation, there is an average height of thirty- 

 nine feet. This is in eleveyi years. And, in the gravel- 

 brow plantation the average height, at fourteen years' end, 

 is thirty-six feet seven inches. You must cut off four feet, 

 perhaps, to come down to wood big enough for the top of 

 a hop -pole. This leaves thirty-two feet seven inches ; and 

 that is sixteen feet three and a half inches for each of the 

 seven years. But, it is well known, that, as to height, a 

 tree goes much farther in the first four or five years, than 

 it does in the same number of years afterwards. The fact^ 

 as to these trees is, that they were fit for hop-poles at Jive 

 years from the day of planting out. 



364. Four feet each way is the distance for planting ; 

 and, then, an acre contains two thousand seven hundred and 

 twenty. Let us see the cost. The items are : the rent of 

 the land for six years ; the taxes and rates ; the trenching 

 of the land, for, without this, half your time is lost ; the 

 plants ; the planting ; the hoeing for three years. You 

 must hoe twice, once early in June, and once early in 



