HEDGE-ROW TIMBER. 125 



The last point connected with Hedge-row 

 Trees which I shall mention, is the planting of 

 them ; but upon this part of the subject, I shall not 

 say much. I might, indeed, have passed it over 

 in silence, and still have fulfilled the requirements 

 of my Title-page ; but inasmuch as the planting 

 of Hedge-row Timber, must form a part of an 

 improved system of management, however it may 

 be left out of the present practice, it does not seem 

 quite right to overlook it altogether. 



If Hedge-row Trees are to succeed at all, they 

 must have a good start; and if they are to have 

 a good start, there must, of necessity, be some 

 trouble bestowed in the preparation of the site on 

 which they are to be planted. In the fences of 

 new inclosures there will be no difficulty at all. 

 If the border, as it is often called, be well prepared 

 for the quick, it will be in a right state for an Oak 

 Tree ; and it would really appear to be a piece 

 of unaccountable neglect an inexplainable cir- 

 cumstance, as the act of a man of business if a 

 tract of land were to be enclosed, and new fences 

 put down, without the opportunity being seized to 



plant a suitable number of Oak Trees. I say, of 

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