The Locust. 



rage, casting away in each a trifling fraction, is as follows : 

 Bigness just above the ground, eight inches and a half round : 

 bigness of the trunk six feet from the ground, six inches 

 and a half: height, sixteen feet. Mr. Palmer tells me, 

 that this clump is inferior to some of the others. He men- 

 tions one containing four hundred Locusts, the average size 

 just above the ground, ten inches and a half; six feet from 

 the ground, seven inches, and the height twenty-two 

 feet. He mentions a third clump containing two hundred 

 Locusts, nearly the same in bigness round as those in 

 the last-mentioned clump, and in height nineteen feet. 

 The reader will please to observe, that these trees were 

 planted in the month of March 1824, and that, therefore, 

 they have now been^ just four years in the ground. He 

 will also please to observe, that the trees of the two last- 

 mentioned clumps must at this very moment be fit for hop- 

 poles, and that they will last in that capacity for twenty or 

 thirty years at the least. The trees in the two last-men- 

 tioned clumps would split, and be more than sufficiently 

 big to make the end bars, of what are called hurdle gates 

 for sheep and cattle, in which capacity they would last for 

 a life-time or two, instead of lasting for four or five years, 

 as is the case with OAK. These trees are, upon an average, 

 now worth a shilling a-piece ; but, suppose they take 

 another year to bring them to this point : they stand 

 upon exactly five acres of ground; reckon rent and 

 taxes at two pounds an acre (for j^lantations are ti/the free), 

 that would amount to fifty pounds for the five years. 

 Allow six pounds an acre for the trenching and culti- 

 vation; that brings the charge to seventy-three pounds. The 

 trees would now cost, out of my nursery, and finer trees 

 than those were, for each hundred ten shillings, or five 

 pounds a thousand ; or, for thirteen thousand six hundred, 

 W'hich was the number sent to Coleshill, 68/., making the 



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