The Locust. 



speak of the quickness of the growth of the Locust, when 

 it occurred to me, that it might not be amiss to obtain an 

 account of the progress of the plantations of Lord Folke- 

 stone, now Earl Radnor, mentioned by me in the Re- 

 gister during my " Rural Ride in the tall of 1826. The 

 History of these plantations is the most interesting, that 

 can possibly be, to all those who are engaged in planting 

 or who intend to plant. In 1822, very late in the month of 

 May, I sowed some Locust in my garden at Kensington. 

 Not being prepared for the sale of them in 1823, and not 

 having room to transplant them at Kensington, I got a 

 friend in Sussex, to let me transplant them in a part of one 

 of his fields. They were taken in a wagon, tied up in 

 bundles just like so many fagots, and carried to the dis- 

 tance of thirty miles. They were transplanted in rows at 

 eighteen inches apart, the plants at about eight inches 

 apart in the rows. They were thus put into the ground in 

 very hot weather, between the 6th and the 8th MAY, both 

 days inclusive. The next year, 1824, 1 began selling trees ; 

 and I engaged, that Lord Folkestone should have the 

 whole of those, which had been put into the field in Sus- 

 sex. His Lordship intended to plant, and did plant them, 

 on his estate at Coleshill, a village in Berkshire, lying on 

 the road from the town of Farringdon, to the to^vn of 

 Highworth, being rather nearer to the latter than the for- 

 mer. They were taken up in the field in Sussex on the 

 13th March (1824), the morning of the day being fine, 

 but there being a heavy /a/Z of snow in the afternoon. The 

 next day, it snowed again, and it being Sunday, the trees 

 remained lying on the ground in bundles, until Monday 

 the 15th when the wagon arrived to take them to Coles- 

 hill. The bundles made a very great load for the wagon, 

 rising about six feet above the raves or tops of the sides of 

 the wagon. They were not packed up with straw or 



