| In New Forest, Aldridge Hill, planted 1813:— | ||||
| Number. | Contents. | Value. | ||
| 1st acre | 75 | 742 | £90 | |
| 2nd acre„ | 79 | 559 | 67 | |
| 3rd acre„ | 77 | 641 | 78 | |
| 4th acre„ | 72 | 683 | 84 | |
| In Alice Holt Woods:— | ||||
| Lodge Enclosure | 40 | 837 | 100 | |
| Goose Green | 50 | 812 | 97 | |
| Berewoods, planted 1816 | 54 | 771 | 93 | |
| Berewoods,„ planted„ 1816„ | 70 | 618 | 74 | |
| In Dean Forest:— | ||||
| Blakeney Hill, South, planted 1814 | 72 | 720 | 87 | |
| Nag’s Head Plantation planted„ 1814„ | 97 | 425 | 57 | |
| Bromley Hill Plantation planted„ 1812 | 67 | 700 | 84 | |
| High Meadow Woods (no date stated), 1st acre |
30 | 1528 | 214 | |
| High Meadow Woods (no date stated), 2nd acre |
50 | 1480 | 207 | |
In Richmond Park :— Upper Pond, planted 1824. . 60 672 81 Kingston Hill, __,, 1826 , : 46 628 75 Isabella, . 1831 . 68 450 54 Isabella, + 1845 : . Ir0 406 49
In the same volume Mr. Ralph Clutton, in an excellent paper on the self-sown oak woods of Sussex, gives many exact details of the growth of oak without under- wood, with measurements and valuations, which should be consulted by all land- owners in that part of England.
Under more favourable circumstances, however, oak plantations may yield a good profit, as shown by the following extract from the Norfolk Chronicle, sent me by Sir Hugh Beevor, and printed in Grigor's Eastern Arboretum, p. 360.
"Being enabled from old memoranda of undoubted authority, and from information received several years ago from different persons, who remembered or who assisted in the work, to give you, perhaps, an unusually accurate account of the produce of a piece of land measuring eight acres, planted with acorns in the year 1729, I take the liberty of so doing, and of requesting your insertion of it in your paper whenever you may have the best opportunity. The piece was under the plough at that time, cold and unprofitable, from the practice of underdraining not being then introduced; at Michaelmas 1729 it was sown with wheat, and acorns dibbled in; when reaped, the stubble was left very long, which is supposed to have caused the plants to run up very straight.
