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The railing of young timber on eftates has not 

 been fufHcicntly attended to. Land -owners know- 

 ing they have little chance of living to cut down 

 and ftrll the tree they are at the expence of planting, 

 do not often confider, that their eftate is notwith- 

 ftanding increafed in value and improved in beauty 

 by being well planted, and confequently would at 

 any time fell for abundantly more than would repay 

 them the firft expence of planting with intereft. 

 But tenants for life or years have no great induce- 

 ment to improvements of this fort; on the contrary, 

 they would incumber their lands without any profit; 

 and this generally occafions them to be as backward 

 in railing timber, as they are induftrious in pollard- 

 ing what does get up. 



Lord Ailefbury has introduced a covenant in his 

 leafes, whereby his tenants engage to plant and pre- 

 ferve a certain number of trees yearly, in proportion 

 to the fize of their eftates ; but even this is not fully 

 -complied with, and he has lately employed a perfon 

 to go over his farms, to feek out the fitteft place? 

 in hedge-rows, &c. for planting, and afterwards knt 

 plants fronfi his own nurferies, and had them planted. 

 The fame perfon marks for referves any felf- 

 plantcd trees he can find in the coppices and hedge- 

 rows that come in courfe for cutting, to fave them 

 from being cut down with the underwood. 



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