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clofino" a part of it for entire plantations, and if he 

 had planted fmaller trees, the rabbits and hares 

 would have barked and ruined them ; or if he had 

 planted larger trees, with their natural heads, they 

 would not have grown at all in fuch an expofed 

 fituation. And it mutt be underflood, that thefe 

 trees have not a ftiff formal appearance > like an 

 old tree which is reduced to a pollard, but in 

 the courfe of ten or fifteen years, after they are 

 planted, grow into a handfome fymmetrical form, 

 for their heads are not entirely cut off, fo as to be 

 left like a dead flick, but only reduced in their 

 heads and branches, and left fomewhat in the ori- 

 ginal fhape they were inclined to take. 



Mr. Berney, of Bracon, ranks next as a planter, 

 in point of date, as he ha,s paid great attention to 

 it for upwards of fifty years. In the year 1757, 

 he obtained the honour of a filver medal for a 

 large plantation of oaks. — His Spanifh chefnuts 

 are very fine, many of them fourteen or fifteen 

 inches girth, and his larch as much ; and he has 

 the merit of having done more to eflabliih the cre- 

 dit of the latter than any other perfon I know : 

 he has put it to almofl all the purpofes of buildings, 

 fuch as principals, fpars, lath, and boards ; likewife 

 to many cabinet ufes, fuch as doors, tables, window- 

 frames, buuk-cafes, chimney-pieces, and many beau- 

 tiful fpecimens in carving. In fliort, he entertains 

 Jit opinion of it; and, having nude obler- 

 M vations 



