126 HEDGE-ROW TIMBER. 



Oak Trees, because I am persuaded that it would 

 be very difficult indeed to find a locality where 

 any other kind of timber, other circumstances 

 being equal, would be likely to pay so well. In 

 the line of every Quick fence, then, I should cer- 

 tainly recommend that healthy Oak Plants, of 

 four years old, which have been at least twice 

 transplanted in the nursery, should be inserted, at 

 a distance from each other say, of twenty yards 

 and if they are properly guarded and nursed, 

 nothing is more certain, than that they will become 

 a fine race of trees. But planting young Oaks, or 

 young trees of any kind, in an old Hedge-row, is 

 quite a different affair. It is indeed an under- 

 taking involving real difficulty, and requiring a 

 very considerable degree of skill on the part of the 

 workman, and of firmness and determination on 

 the part of his employer. 



It would be found all but impossible to rear a 

 young Oak in the exact line of an old and vigorous 

 thorn hedge ; but there are many situations which 

 present much less difficulty. For example : In 

 the year when a hedge is plashed or laid, where 

 there is a moderate space on the bank which nas 



