26 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



&quot; the Arrow,&quot; and some &quot; the Harrow,&quot; and I do not now 

 remember which way it is printed on the map. 



The field-bean is a common crop here ; it is now in blos 

 som, and a peculiarly sweet scent from it, every now and 

 then, comes in a full, delicious flood over the hedges. 



The country over which we walked in the afternoon, be 

 tween Leominster and Hereford, was in some parts extremely 

 beautiful : considerable hills, always, when too steep or rocky 

 or sterile for easy cultivation, covered with plantations of 

 trees ; the lesser hills and low lands shaded by frequent 

 orchards. These were generally of apples, sometimes with 

 pears intermixed somewhat rarely entirely of pears. Many 

 of them appeared much like the one I have described, and 

 occasionally there was .a regularly planted one of fine, thrifty 

 trees. In the poorer orchards, where the trees were of all 

 ages, they frequently were planted not more than fifteen feet 

 apart, and when so, as far as I observed, were invariably 

 small in size and unhealthy. In the better ones, the trees 

 stood oftenest thirty feet apart one way, and twenty another ; 

 rarely at much greater distance than this, but sometimes as 

 much as forty. 



