You can plant a very extensive apple-orchard on a grand scale.

I have just run through the calculations; they are quite startling.

Take 40 trees per acre--that's the proper average--at 1s.6d.per tree; 4,000 trees for 100 acres, L300; labor of digging, trenching, say L10 an acre,--total for 100 acres, L1,000.

Pave the bottoms of the holes to prevent the tap-root striking down into the bad soil,--oh! I am very close and careful you see, in all minutiae; always was,--pave 'em with rubbish and stones, 6d.

a hole; that for 4,000 trees the 100 acres is L100.