28 LARCH FIR. 



The Taxal estate was purchased from John 

 Dickenson, Esq., of Birch Hall, near Man- 

 chester, by Foster Bower, Esq., a barrister of 

 great eminence in his time, who made it his 

 country residence. He let the planting of 

 Taxal Edge, the Hough Moor, and Ladbach 

 Cloughs, in all, one thousand acres, to a 

 Scotch forester, at a certain price per acre, 

 for the plants and planting of them, of which 

 about four hundred acres were planted in his 

 lifetime; when he was seized with a sudden 

 illness, which ended fatally, while he was 

 on the Circuit during the Assizes at Chester. 

 He died intestate, and his elder brother, John 

 Bower Joddrell, Esq., of Yeardsley, took all 

 his personal and real estates, who, not having 

 the same taste for planting, was desirous to 

 be released from this contract, but not being 

 able to effect this, the planting of the remain- 

 ing six hundred acres was completed. 



More judgment, in my opinion, might have 

 been exercised by the forester, or insisted 



