00 A,V AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



luxuriant young wheat and barley in broad glades of glancing 

 light ; and a stout old man, who waddles towards us with a 

 warm greeting, also wiping the sweat from his brow, and 

 mounting &quot; a goodish bit of stuif, though she has seen twenty 

 winters,&quot; rides for a little way along with us, breathing hard 

 and speaking huskily ; grumbling, grumbling at every open 

 ing in the conversation at Free Trade and high rents, but 

 answering all our questions about his draining, and boneing, 

 and drilling, and dibbling, and very frankly acknowledging 

 how much he has been able to increase his crops with new- 

 fashioned ways and new-fangled implements. 



Then leaving the lane, we take a foot&amp;gt;path, which, crossing 

 the hedges by stiles, leads through old orchards, in all of 

 which horses and cattle are pasturing ; and there are beautiful 

 swells of the ground, and sometimes deep swales of richer 

 green, with rushes and willows growing at the bottom. 

 Beaching a steeper hill-side, we enter a large plantation of 

 young forest trees, and soon pass all at once into an older 

 growth of larger and more thinly standing wood ; and near 

 the top of this, find a clearing, where men are making faggots 

 of the brushwood, and stripping bark from the larger sticks, 

 and some little boys and girls are picking up chips and putting 

 them into sacks. 



We reach another lane and cultivated fields again, and, 

 being on elevated ground, at the knarly feet of a glorious, 

 breezy, gray, old beech-tree, lay ourselves down, and, looking 

 back upon the extensive landscape, tell our friend in what it 

 differs from American scenery. 



The great beauty and peculiarity of the English landscape 

 is to be found in the frequent long, graceful lines of deep 

 green hedges and hedge-row timber, crossing hill, valley, and 

 plain, in every direction ; and in the occasional large trees, 

 dotting the broad fields, either singly or in small groups, left 



