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is truly deemed eftential, both to the elegance and grandeur 

 of the inclofure. But while this idea prevails in theory, 

 and neither grandeur nor elegance can be realized with- 

 out it, there is too much reafon to fear that planting has 

 not kept due pace with the confumption of this valuable 

 fpecies of timber. On the latter, it is much to be quef- 

 tioned, whether a view to immediate profits from the foil, 

 has not too generally obtained to the cxclufion of timber 

 plantations. 



Why this error fhould obtain, it may be difficult to de- 

 termine in a way favourable to the wifdom and forefight 

 of a multitude of land-owners. For on many inclofed 

 farms, and efpecially on farms which have a bleak nor- 

 thern expofure, it would frequently be found that a judi- 

 cious plantation of young timber trees would gradually 

 increafe the value of the lands, by the fhelter they would 

 afford to cattle, the ftrength they would give to fences in 

 which they might be planted, and the breaking of un- 

 friendly North and North-eaft winds. 



But admitting the fituation of inclofures to be fuch, as 

 fometimes not to ftand in any great need of the fhelter of 

 trees, it frequently happens, that on farms of confiderable 

 iize, and variety of foil and expofure, fmall parts, of no 

 great value for pafture or cultivation, might be appropri- 

 ated, without any material lefTening of the annual income 

 of the farm, for entire plantations, even of oak. But if it 

 fhould be thought that an entire oak plantation would be 

 too great a facrince of the ground, a plantation of various 

 other fpecies of trees of a quicker growth, to be periodi- 

 cally cut as underwood, might be made, and the produce 

 come in aid of the fuppofed difadvantage ; while the prin- 

 cipal object above contended for, would be fecured. 



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