HEDGE-ROW TIMBER. 109 



If then the objection which would be made by 

 the man of taste, to the felling of Hedge-row and 

 detached Timber, could be effectually obviated, 

 by providing a regular succession to take the 

 place of such as might be cut down for the dif- 

 ference of a few yards in the site need hardly be 

 taken into the account one great difficulty, at 

 least, would be overcome ; and instead of wasting, 

 as is done under the present practice, a quantity 

 of Timber, the aggregate value of which makes 

 it an object of national importance, the growers 

 might take down their trees when they arrived at 

 maturity, and thus produce a constant supply of 

 the best sort for home consumption: and it will 

 not surely be argued by the most determined ad- 

 vocate for free trade, that it would be for the 

 interest of the English Gentleman to give a higher 

 price for Foreign Pine than he would be able to 

 make of home-grown Oak ! No ! emphatically 

 No ! ! When the navy requires it, by all means 

 let it be so appropriated, and if the demand be 

 sufficient from that quarter, the relative price will 

 be kept up, but let not English heart of Oak be 

 reduced in our home market below the value of an 



