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planting, mud depend on its fituation as to roads, 

 markets, and manure; and more efpecially thofe 

 forts of manure, lime or marl, which, in the firfl in- 

 flance, are mofl neceflary for bringing it into a fpeedy 

 ftate of produ(5lion, and on its being tytheable or 

 tythe free. If, from thefe circumftances, converting 

 it to wood-land fliould be found mofl proper, the 

 nature of the foil will bed point out the kind of 

 timber and underwood proper to be planted ; but, 

 however this may be, all the new fences or hedges 

 which are hereafter to be made, for the fubdivifion 

 of wade lands or open fields, ought, in my opinion, 

 to be abundantly planted with all the different forts 

 of forefl trees, adapted to the nature of the foil. 

 This I mention, becaufe it has been much neglefted 

 in Warwickfliire, and many other counties; an opi- 

 nion having prevailed, that the injury done to hedge- 

 rows, and to the adjoining grounds, by fuch planting, 

 is more than equal to the value of the timber that can 

 be fo raifed. I have before fuppofed the average 

 fize ofthe new inclofures, that have been made in 

 this county, to be fifteen acres ; if fo, each clofe, by 

 fencing one fide and one end, has 550 yards in 

 length, on which timber might have been planted 

 with the quick, &c. and if five yards and a half be 

 allowed for two trees to be thus planted (which is, 

 I think, fufRcient fpace for a fev/ years, when pro- 

 perly pruned and trained) then each clofe of that 

 fize would have 200 trees, growing on its fences, 



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