104 HEDGE-ROW TIMBER. 



on the subject ; but probably it is not less, in Eng- 

 land alone, than One Hundred Millions sterling ! 



It is quite clear that a course of management 

 which only, in some of its details, falls short of 

 what it ought to be, would involve, as it affected 

 such an immense investment, a very serious loss 

 to somebody. How much more serious then, must 

 it be, if, not only some of the minor details of 

 management, but the entire course of treatment, 

 be radically wrong, as it respects a considerable 

 proportion, and very defective indeed as to the 

 remainder ? It would be a waste of time to stop 

 here with a view to argue, in proof of what must 

 appear to every one to be nothing less than an 

 axiom. 



That proprietors of Hedge-row Timber are not 

 solely influenced by considerations of taste in their 

 management of it, is most evident to an experi- 

 enced eye ; but the heavy loss, which is consequent 

 upon allowing it to stand so long, has, probably, 

 never been fairly understood by them, or some 

 efforts would have been made to prevent it. 



If a Nobleman or Gentleman merely suffered 

 his timber to stand beyond maturity in the neigh- 



