HC Deb 21 October 1908 vol 194 c1134
LORD BALCARRES

To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, what portion of the sum of £681 spent last year in Delamere Woodlands was expended on new planting; how many acres were so planted; and what was the number of trees employed per acre.

(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) About £178 were spent inclosing and planting new areas containing about twenty-one and a half acres. About 2,900 trees were planted per acre.