The Locust. 



mats; but a little fern was laid on the insides of the 

 wagon, and over the top of the load, a single mat was 

 put over the whole, and then the load was bound on with 

 a rope like a load of straw. The trees were, I think, three 

 days upon the road, and, of course, could not be planted 

 out before the latter end of March. 



379. There appeared to me to be about forty or fifty 

 acres in the whole of his Lordship's plantation, covering 

 the side of a hill of gentle declivity, in a part of his park. 

 The plantation consisted of all sorts of forest trees ; but, the 

 Locusts were not mixed with the other trees, and were 

 placed in clumps of one hundred, two hundred, three hun- 

 dred, or more. When I saw them in the fall of 1826, they 

 appeared to be, upon an average, of more than twelve feet 

 high ; and, at a distance, they looked like clumps of trees 

 which had been planted many years previous to the plant- 

 ing of the trees of the rest of the plantation. 



380. I was desirous, upon the present occasion, to be able 

 to state very accurately, what were the size and height of 

 them NOW at the end of /owr i/ears of growth. With this 

 view, I wrote to Mr. Daniel Palmer, who is Lord Rad- 

 nor's bailiff at Coleshill, and who had planted the trees, to 

 measure all the trees, one by one, contained in one of the 

 above mentioned clumps. He took a clump which had 

 ninety-two trees in it. He numbered the trees from one to 

 ninety- two, and sent me on the 6th of this present month 

 of March, the measurement of each individual tree* in the 

 following manner : L The bigness in inches round just above 

 the ground : 2. The bigness round the trunk at six feet above 

 the ground : 3. The height of each tree, from the ground to 

 the top of the topmost twig. I liave added these dimensions 

 together, dividing, in each case, by ninety-two ; and the ave- 



