The Locust, 



whole cliarge 1341. Thirteen thousand, six hundred tree?, 

 at a shilling- a-piece, amount to sia; hundred and eighty 

 pounds; and these trees will be worth that money next 

 year, better than an Ash pole of twelve or fourteen years 

 growth is worth six-pence. The profit then would be of 

 these five acres of plantation 529/. ; exceeding any of the 

 calculations made by me in the former part of this article. 



381. A plantation will be converted to different uses to 

 accord with the different circumstances of the country in 

 which it stands. There are no hop-grounds near to Coles- 

 hill ; but there are always various uses for wood that is 

 three inches through or nine inches round. Most likely 

 these trees will be thinned out for some of those uses. One 

 half left, that half would become posts sufficient for mode- 

 rately sized gates, or paling, or for sills to windows or doors; 

 and then they are worth a crown a-piece ; and whoever lives 

 to see these trees at the end of ten years of growth, will 

 see them worth that crown a-piece. So that a plantation 

 of about a hundred acres would, at the end of twenty years^ 

 in tolerably good ground, be a fortune, not to turn up the 

 nose at even by the son or daughter of a peer. 



382. But, in countries where hop-poles are wanted, and 

 where Ash poles sell on an average, I believe, at three 

 pounds a hundred, what would be the value of a planta- 

 tion like that of Lord Radnor? At the end of five years 

 his trees would bring a shilling a-piece ; being cut down, 

 each stem would send up two or three. He would have 

 three times the number of shillings at the end of another 

 five years ; for, they would become poles a great deal sooner 

 the second time than the first. Mr. Withers, an eminent 

 attorney near Holt in Norfolk, who has written very ably 

 and very usefully on the subject of planting, and particu- 



