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to park scenery, while the fonnahty, which the browsing- 

 hne is thought to occasion, is very easily done away, by any 

 one acquainted with the commonest arrangements in real 

 landscape. To protect trees effectually, however, from the 

 rubbing of sheep is a work which we seldom see well exe- 

 cuted ; because to do it well, both neatness and utiUty should 

 be combined in the execution. 



The guards generally in use for protecting trees, are well 

 known ; hurdles and cordage of different kinds ; three-cor- 

 nered, four-cornered, and circular palings, and the like ; black 

 or whitethorn branches ; wrappings of straw or mat, and 

 even of painted sailcloth, have been all employed on various 

 occasions. Of these contrivances, the thorns are injurious 

 to the wool of the sheep, and the different wrappings to the 

 trees ; and both act in excluding the sun and air from the 

 stem. In respect to the hurdles and palings, they appear 

 always cumbersome, and, if numerous, form too prominent 

 a feature in a park. When a man, however, has planted 

 his lawn with trees like his thumb, or at most like his wrist 

 in thickness, he is apt to fancy, that he has covered the sur- 

 face with fine wood, when he has only disfigured it with 

 hedgestakes and railings, which are at least as unsightly to 

 behold, as they are expensive to keep up, and show a com- 

 plete absence of both taste and skill. The example which 

 has been quoted in Section V., of the effect of this sort of 

 wooding, by no means presents an overcharged picture of 

 the system. 



Perhaps the most perfect of all guards would be an iron 

 collar, of about an inch and a half broad, with a hinge in 

 the middle of it; together with sharp-pointed uprights of 

 the same material, three feet three inches high, and three 

 quarters of an inch in thickness, for running into the ground. 

 The uprights might bo placed about two inches asunder ; 

 and to the whole might be added a hasp, with notches in 

 the collar, in order to accommodate it to the progressive 



