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inferior article, with all the costs of transit added 

 to the original price. This were indeed to show 

 a most extravagant and unaccountable preference 

 of a crotchet over the obvious dictates of reason, 

 and the suggestions of prudence. It would indeed 

 be to drop the substance, and grasp at the shadow. 

 I trust I may now conclude that I have satis- 

 factorily proved, not only that the " magnitude of 

 the sacrifice which the present practice involves 

 is disproportionate to the good resulting," .but that 

 " the embellishment of a landscape does not neces- 

 sarily include the perpetuity of any one race of 

 Trees." In handling the remaining proposition, 

 and in endeavouring to prove that the present 

 treatment of Hedge-row Timber is " a perpetual 

 offence against good taste," I shall at the same 

 time, be accumulating evidence in support of the 

 other two. 



It is proper to remark before I proceed any 

 further, that when I speak of Timber being allowed 

 to stand too long, and of the consequent heavy loss 

 upon it to the proprietors, I refer to such as belongs 

 to the Nobility and Gentry, for, although their 

 example has in this, as well as in every thing 



