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No. L. 



PLANTING. 



The following refer to some Farms in a part of the 

 country exceedingly bare for many miles, in Ber- 

 wickshire. 



It will be at once seen from what I have already 

 said, that all the blank ground within the present 

 boundaries as already described, should be planted 

 up. The ground occupied by these clusters or lots 

 of wood, and the line of roads by which the timber 

 and bark has to be removed, cannot be planted up 

 till spring 1858, after the wood and barks are all re- 

 moved ; but the proposed enclosures should be im- 

 mediately made, and the blanks betwixt these hags 

 planted up, and all new ground, first spring ; as the 

 natural growths from the cut stools will grow much 

 faster than plants will do. I need hardly observe, 

 that the whole of these blanks should be filled up 

 with oaks ; and where the rocks are very near the 

 surface, oak acorns may be put in ; converting the 

 whole into a natural oak coppice wood ; and if at- 

 tended to after the first cutting, it will pay an annual 

 rent of at least L.7 sterling per acre, and that with- 

 out any expense for time to come, but keeping good 

 the fences. I may here observe, although a little 

 out of the way, that nothing would ever pay on this 

 property better, nor could any thing be more advan- 

 tageous to the farms, besides ornamenting the whole 

 country, clothing the naked scenery, and affording ex- 

 cellent shelter for the cattle and sheep, — to plant the 



