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Some inconvenience indeed will be fuf- 

 tained, by fhading the ground, but it 

 will bear no proportion, to the profit 

 which will accrue from the increafe in the 

 growth, and value of the timber. Hedge- 

 rows, properly managed, afford a large 

 field for planting 5 but, where this me- 

 thod of raifing timber is pracflifed, pol- 

 lards fhould be totally extirpated. They 

 take up a deal of room, as much as the 

 largefl trees, utterly deftroy all fences, 

 and produce very little more wood, than 

 would grow in the fame fpace from 

 flubbs, or quickfet^liools. If there was 

 only one tree planted, in the room of 

 every pollard through the kingdom, it 

 would very foon be fufficiently flocked j 

 and the difference in beauty, and profit, 

 would be aftonifliing. If the cutting 

 down of pollards fhould be thought to 

 leiTen the quantity of fuel, the under- 

 wood 



