From: "Phil Payne" 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> Anecdote (almost certainly apocryphal):  a Duke was having his estate
> landscaped and came across some of the workers taking a break from
> planting trees.  When asked when they were going to resume tree planting,
> he was told "Tomorrow because it's going to take 50 years before they're
> worth viewing."
>
> "Fifty years?  Then start now!" was the Duke's reply.

Sounds like Wellington.  Could have been recent - the Duke of Edinburgh has
been replanting at Windsor.  Other famous tree planters have been the Duke
of Devonshire at Chatsworth growing beech commercially and the Duke of
Buccleuch - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/152671

The latter did actually lay out his 70 miles, but all on his own ground.

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