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Compensation when area is overplanted.—When trees are planted in excess of the following scale, the court, if satisfied that, in the circumstances of the particular case, the land is overplanted, may, notwithstanding anything herein before contained, either refuse to grant any compensation or may grant compensation at a lower rate, for so many of the trees as are in excess of the scale and are immature:— Cocoanut trees 100 per acre . Arecanut trees 720 per acre. Jack tree 60 per acre. In the case of a mixed garden, each tree shall be allowed a proportionate fraction of an acre according to the above scale.