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does not necessarily include the perpetuity of any 

 one race of timber trees. And thirdly ; that the 

 present mode of "mismanaging" Hedge-row Tim- 

 ber, is a perpetual offence against good taste. 



Although I have arranged my three propo- 

 sitions as above, I do not intend to bind myself to 

 take them up again, and dispose of them in con- 

 secutive order : I have neither time nor the ability 

 to adapt my "remarks" to the niceties of exact 

 logical arrangement ; it will be sufficient for me, if 

 I shall succeed in leaving upon the minds of those 

 who may read them, an impression of their truth, 

 If that result is arrived at, it surely will be quite 

 sufficient to draw the particular attention of pro- 

 prietors to the subject; which will be more than 

 half way towards securing the improvement which 

 is so loudly called for : and that would be as much 

 perhaps, as could at once be reasonably expected. 



It may not be amiss to glance for an instant* 

 at the value of the property about which I am 

 writing. Few people, I imagine, have any proper 

 conception of the aggregate amount. It is, of 

 course, impossible to offer more than a conjecture 



