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90. money has been loft than gained, by fpecu- 



BEDGEROW lating nicely in this delicate matter. 



The dead wood and hanging boughs of all 

 timber-trees left {landing ought to be removed ; 

 and the younger timberings trained in fuch 

 manner as will induce them to take the de- 

 fired outline, and rife in the mofl profitable 

 form. Oaks in hedges naturally grow low 

 and fpreading, doing more injury to the hedge 

 and the adjoining inclofures than their own 

 value, in that form, can ever repay ; whereas 

 tall well-headed oaks are at once ornamental 

 and valuable to an eftate ; without being, in 

 any confiderable degree, injurious to the occu- 

 pier. 



Being fully convinced of this, from almoft 

 daily obfervation, I am clearly of opinion, that 

 every opportunity ought to be taken to propa- 

 gate oaks in hedges ; not by putting in young 

 plants where old trees have been taken down ; 

 but by fearching for, and preferving, young 

 feedling plants (more efpecially where a hedge 

 is cut down), and carefully training them up 

 wherever a vacancy will admit them : Or, if 

 fuch do not rife naturally, by putting in tranf- 

 planted plants in vacant hedge-banks and wafte 

 corners , at the fame time dibbling acorns 

 round them, in order that, in the courfe of a 



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