STRIPES, CLUMPS, &C. 251 



These considerations may be found ser- 

 viceable in many cases, in determining the 

 position and direction of useful stripes, 

 clumps, &c. But it is obvious, that no fixed 

 rule or regulation can be laid down. An 

 infinite variety of surface, situation, and ex- 

 posure, prevents the possibility. Let us hope 

 no one would place a clump, or run a stripe 

 at random, without considering of its use in 

 the first instance of its value afterwards. 



THE BREADTH OF STRIPES, AND THE 

 VOLUME OR EXTENT OF CLUMPS, aCCOrd- 



ing to local circumstances, may, however, 

 be determined. Here I mean useful, not 

 decorative stripes, &c., but such as are run, 

 or placed with the intention of affording 

 shelter to lauds, which, by these means, may 

 be rendered more valuable. 



How often do we find this laudable inten- 

 tion rendered futile through niggardliness 

 and inadvertency ! Though we have to la- 

 ment the latter, we cannot help condemn- 

 ing the former. To run a narrow stripe, 

 perhaps of four or five yards in breadth, 

 through an exposed, barren tract, is, indeed, 

 better than to plant a single row ; but a sin- 



