five feet long, and one in the Bailey Copse seven
feet. We measured an oak planted in Whitemead Park near to the W. hedge,
and in the second field planted below the house, seventeen feet six
inches high: Lord Glenbervie was present. Shutcastle in the upper part,
and the eastern part of Serridge, were looking best of all the new
plantations, though all appear in a very thriving state this year." From
the same source we learn that Ellwood, purchased from Colonel Probyn, and
containing 110 acres, was planted this year. The holes were dug four
feet apart in rows, and five feet between the rows. The trees planted
were 30,000 Scotch firs, 1,600 pineasters, 3,600 larch, 6,000 Spanish
chesnuts, 120,000 oaks of three and four years old, and 4,500 seedling
oaks planted by way of experiment in one corner of the large field on the
south side of Ellwood, and with no large plants amongst them. A few of
the enclosures had oaks planted in them also, viz.-

Ruerdean Hill 35,000
Beechen Hurst 52,000
Bromley 35,000
Sallow Vallets 12,000
Park Hill 30,000

and some more, from each of the woodmen's nurseries in their respective
enclosures.

In the spring of 1820, 15,000 Scotch firs were planted in Ellwood, in the
place of those that died. During the autumn and the following spring,
about two million trees, which had been raised in the different Forest
nurseries, were also planted out to mend over the different enclosures,
viz.--

Oaks. Firs.
In Whitemead Park 51,000 50,000
Shutcastle Enclosure 25,500
Ellwood 8,000 16,000
Bromeley 80,000 3,500
Nagshead 460,000 5,000
Aston Bridge 81,000
Ruerdean Hill 120,000 63,000
Haywood 240,000
Edge Hills 10,000 70,000
Crab-tree Hill 115,000
Russells 25,000
Kensley Ridge 210,000 80,000
Yew-tree Brake 125,000 35,000
Blakeney Hill 100,000 13,000