THE NEW FORESTRY. 



fences by the tenants ; and lastly, an excessive quantity of 

 hedge-row timber has been often pleaded as a good reason 

 for a less rent. Wherever the farming is of a high order the 

 fields are largest and the hedge-row trees fewest in number, 

 and the Lothians, the finely-farmed districts of east Yorkshire, 

 Lincoln, and Surrey, and elsewhere may be cited as examples. 

 On the great cultivated plains of the Continent there are 

 practically no hedge-row trees, which are considered an 

 unmixed evil. It has been maintained that hedge-row trees 

 are ornamental in the landscape. To those who plead this 

 for what is a nuisance in almost every other way we have 

 nothing to say except that trees dotted in straight lines along 

 fences do not consort with the landscape gardener's ideas of 

 good taste. To the existence of trees along the highways, 

 bye- ways, and lanes there are fewer objections, and when 

 these are furnished the landscape lacks nothing in the shape of 

 trees on a land otherwise fairly well wooded. There is no 

 excuse for growing valueless trees on good land on any estate 

 on which any land exists that ought to be planted. Trees 

 for shade are another thing, but very few of these suffice on 

 any farm. 



