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particularly in such a situation, where they give so 

 much beauty and antiquity to such a grand mansion. 

 The beautiful lines of the poet, so apropos, plead an 

 excuse for using them : — 



" The Elms are fill'd and adieu to the shade, 

 And the whispering sound of the cool colonade, 

 The winds play no longer and sing in their leaves, 

 Nor the Ouse on its surface their image receives. 

 — Years had elasp'd since I last took a view 

 Of my favourite field and the place where they grew, 

 When behold on their sides in the grass they were laid, 

 And I sat on the trees under which I had stray'd ; 

 The black bird has sought out another retreat, 

 Where the Hazels afford him a screen from the heat. 

 And the scene where his notes have oft charmed me before, 

 Shall resound with his south flowing ditty no more. 

 My fugitive years are all passing away, 

 And I must myself lie as lowly as they, 

 With a turf at my breast and a stone at my head, 

 Ere another such grove rises up in its stead." 



There are a few of these trees spoiled in the top ; 

 they should immediately be cut over as pollards, 

 about six feet at least above the garden wall ; the 

 trunk, if hollow, covered over to prevent any further 

 decay, and allowed then to pollard, and the blemish- 

 ed parts carefully dressed up, as directed in No. IV. 

 The undermining and cutting of the roots should be 

 carefully filled with good earth, and never again re- 

 opened. The pollard elm at the north-east end of 

 the mansion, is a beautiful specimen of the degree 

 of perfection that a pollard can be brought to by at- 

 tention and care. In the management of young 

 plantations it is altogether different, although they 

 have even arrived at the age of fifty, or say sixty 

 years j in this case, when the trees are vigorous in 



