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Woods and Plantations in Gh-eat Britain. 
returns from the counties of Aberdeen, Inverness, and Ross and 
Cromarty. In England, the counties where most planting would 
seem of late to have been done are Devon and Hants in the south, 
and Yorkshire, Northumberland, and Cumberland in the north. 
The county of Hants now stands in the Returns as possessing 
the largest area of woodland in England, or 122,574 acres. Sussex, 
with 122,073, comes second ; while the four counties of Hants, 
Sussex, Surrey, and Kent, forming the south-eastern comer of 
England, possess between them nearly a fourth of the English 
woods and plantations, showing over 11 per cent, of their surface 
thus occupied, in contrast with 4 per cent, as the mean of the rest 
of the country. 
In Scotland, the county of Inverness accounts for 169,000 acres 
of woodland. This area is far the largest in Great Britain. It is 
considerably in excess of the surface returned as under all forms of 
crops or grass in that county, and nearly equal to a fifth part of the 
whole of the Scottish woodlands. 
If the Irish record of woods and plantations annually sho'wn in 
the Returns for that country, and now amounting to 311,351 acres, 
be added to the aggregate now obtained for Great Britain and to the 
figures obtained from the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands, the 
woodland area of the United Kingdom may be taken as 3,007,569 
acres. 
The following Summary Table has been compiled from the 
detailed particulars as to the woodlands in each county given in 
the Agricultural Returns for 1891 : — 
Acreage in Great Britain of Woods and Plantations for the years 
1888 and 1891, and of Nursery Grounds for the years 1890 
and 1891. 
Thousands (“ 000 ”) omitted. 
— 
England, 
1891 
Wales, 
1891 
Scotland, 
1891 
Total for Great 
Britain, 1891 
Rent d 
Owned 
Total 
Rent'd 
Ownedj Total 
Rent’d Owned 
Total 
Rent'd 
Owned 
Total 
Woods ' . 
Plantations ’ 
Woods and ) 
Plantations / 
Woods and ) 
Plantations j 
Nursery 1 
grounds’ 1 
157 
7 
164 
1,404 
45 
1,449 
1,561 
52 
1,613 
0888) 
1,518 
36 
2 
38 
130 
7 
137 
165 
10 
175 
(1888) 
168 
41 
2 
46 
820 
39 
859 
865 
41 
906 
(1888) 
875 
238 
11 
249 
2,354 
91 
2,445 
2,592 
103 
2,694 
(1888) 
2,561 
1890 
1891 
1890 
1891 
1890 1 1891 
1890 
1891 
11 
11 
« 
4 
1 
1 j 1 
13 
13 
* Except plantations. ’ Planted during the last ten years. 
• Land used by nurserymen for growing trees, shrubs, Ac. ‘ Under 1,000 acres in extent 
