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Th.e process 

 applicable to 

 fte*t extern. 



fialn 



D ; fFer«nt pop- 

 tars. 



Oft ACCLAIMING WASTE LANflS. 



to the proper condition of meadow. The upland I en« 

 closed with thorns on a willow ley*, and within the banks 

 inlaid them with seedling trees and forest ; divers of the 

 former have been taken down for use, and some of the 

 aquatic cuttings are grown to a timber measure; while the 

 several subdivisions, meadow and upland, have been culti- 

 vated, and borne every species of grain and herbage, con- 

 fessedly upon an equality with the long tilluged circumjacent 

 fields. 



J3y a process thus pursued, of which 1 have presumed to 

 adduce this example, the numerous millions of waste acres., 

 which yet disfigure our nation, may and will become, the 

 seasons favouring, under your and your compatriots' en- 

 couragement, a widely extended garden, replete with every 

 useful production congenial to our climate; and the boun- 

 dary of its Helds fenced with faster thriving trees, and 

 more abundant in number than the present large tracts of 

 forest produce, provide for generations yet to come an in- 

 crease of those necessary timbers, that have given this island 

 an intercourse with the inhabitants of every maritime clime, 

 and an acknowledged superiority in the commercial world, 

 which probably it would not have obtained but from the 

 indigenous growth of these not sufficiently valued timbers. 

 Although your extended encouragements have much in- 

 creased them by multiplied plantations, yet their growth 

 may be indefinitely enlarged by an encouragement for their 

 acorn seed to be placed in every raised bank, or their seed- 

 lings planted in every new formed hedge-row ; which most 

 efficaciously might be enforced by Parliament as a condi- 

 tional obligation on all to whom they are assigned, under 

 the statute of a national enclosure. But as every semi- 

 nary of oaks must be referable to a distant posterity, it 

 becomes worthy of every present planter in the interior 

 of his hedge-row3 to have large cuttings of poplar* and 



willow, 



* A willow fence in this situation has the appearance of improbabi- 

 lity, but it is yet improving. 



t Of poplars, the vitrei t alba, and hybridum; this latter hath not, 

 I conceive, found its way into any systematical arrangement of plants, 

 and in comse ha* wot received any specific character. The name as- 

 signed 



