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nioft worthlefs of timber-trees. As a fkreen 

 to better plants, it may, in bleak fituations, 

 have its ufe. 



But the BEECH, to which the foil of the 

 "Wolds is peculiarly adapted, would be more 

 acceptable to pofterity j and would afford 

 much greater ornament to the Wold Hills. 

 If raifed from the maft, with due care, there 

 can be no doubt of its fucceeding on thefe 

 Hills. The Welch mountains abound with 

 it in their bleakeft afpedts. 



Other gentlemen are raifingSKREEN PLAN- 

 TATIONS, and LIVE HEDGES, in a moft fpirited 

 manner. 



In one inftance, I obferved three rows of 

 hedge-wood planted ; about two feet apart; 

 and defended by a row of pofts and rails on 

 cither fide : the bank in which the pofts 

 ftand appearing to have been formed of the 

 fubftratum of chalk rubble; a flip of foil on 

 cither fide being thrown* in between the rails, 

 to give encouragement to the hedge-plants. 

 In other inftances, the foil has been cleanfed 

 by a turnep fallow *. The plants, when I 

 faw them, were vigorous, and in high pre- 

 fervation. 



R 4 The 



* Neverthclefi, a ditch is, I believe, invariably 

 funk on one fide. Gathering the cultivated foil into 



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