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a fine healthy ash, with one of the top branches broke, 

 and lying over on a fine beech, which has been allowed 

 to do so, it appears, for at least a whole season, which is 

 not only destroying the ash but also the beech it lies 

 on; and if not remedied, will in time be the means of 

 killingboth trees, which, of course, would make a dread- 

 ful blank : this is a decree of carelessness that de- 

 serves to be severely reprimanded. The branch should 

 be cut off the ash, and the place where it is broke at 

 present, dressed up, as also the branch it has destroy- 

 ed on the beech, and that immediately. On the 

 north side of the approach — as the whole of the 

 trees here, as well as those described, and the whole 

 on both sides leading to the mansion, give an in- 

 finite dignity and ancient grandeur to the place, 

 altogether indescribable, the greatest possible care, 

 and every thing that human art or ingenuity can 

 devise, should be applied, to preserve as long as 

 possible their growth and appearance as trees ; not a 

 single tree should be cut, nor so much as a healthy 

 branch should ever be cut off any of them. When a 

 single branch is broken off any of them by the wind, 

 or otherwise, the place where it is broke should be 

 immediately dressed up, and covered over as afore- 

 said ; when any of them die in the top, it should be 

 cut over, and pollarded ; even when they die in the 

 roots, they should be allowed to stand as long as 

 there is a green blade from them, and till other trees, 

 if possible, be reared in their place. 



No. IV. 

 Beech-Grove. 

 From the gate on both sides of the approach, close 



