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traveller, but he grudges the ground they cover. He 

 could well afford to pay the landlord an additional 

 rentage per annum more than equal to the money 

 value of the yearly growth of these trees. Besides, 

 the landlord has, in all probability, a large park of 

 trees around his mansion, and perhaps compact plan- 

 tations on land unsuited to agriculture. Thus the high 

 value of these hedge-row trees around the fields of his 

 tenant, which he will realise on the spot, together with 

 some additional pounds in rent annually to himself and 

 heirs, would probably facilitate this levelling arrange- 

 ment in face of all the restrictions that the law of 

 entail might seem to throw in the way. 



If, therefore, the hedges of England disappear before 

 the noiseless and furtive progress of utilitarian science, 

 the trees that rise above them in such picturesque ranks 

 will be almost certain to go with them. Then, indeed, 

 a change will come over the face of the country, which 

 will make it difficult for one to recognise it who 

 daguerreotyped its most beautiful features upon his 

 memory before they were obliterated by these latter- 

 day " improvements." 



