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few years, the woodman may have his election 

 of the propereft plant to be trained. 



This however is not the bufmefs of a day, 

 nor of one year, but requires an annual atten- 

 tion ; embracing convenient times, and favor- 

 able opportunities, as the bufinefs of the eftate 

 is profecuted ; confidering this as one of the 

 mo'ft material objects belonging to its manage- 

 ment. 



With refpedt to the POLLARDS, I have fol- 

 lowed thcfe rules : 



Such as were not likely to throw out, in 

 twenty or twenty-five years, a top equal to the 

 prefent value of their Items, I valued to the 

 tenants as fire-wood. 



Thus fuppofing the body of an old pollard to 

 be worth, as fire-wood, two Ihillings ; but 

 from the appearance of the prefent top, when 

 compared with thofe of the neighbouring pol- 

 lards, it was not likely to throw out, in twenty 

 or twenty-five years time, another top of two 

 {hillings value, I marked it to come down, 

 and charged the tenant two (hillings for it, over 

 and above the value of its prefent top : for the 

 intereft of the money will, at the end of that 

 time, be more than the top-wood would have 

 been had it been left (landing; befide the 



mould- 



90. 



TIMBER. 



HEDGE ROTI 

 POLLARDS. 



