152 ORNAMENTAL PLANTATIONS. [Jan. 



cafe will allow. Part of the principals, as Spa- 

 nifh Chefnut, Elm, Poplar, or the like, which are 

 more than neceffary, may be cut over by way of 

 pollards, to complete the fcreen where wanted. 

 A fcreen plantation fhould be, from top to bottom, 

 one continued hill of leaves and branches ; be- 

 ginning, at the edge or fkirt, with the mod dwarf 

 growing kinds, and receding with the taller grow- 

 ing, till they mix their branches with the branches 

 of the principals. Both fides of a fcreen planta- 

 tion may be.fo managed ; and, when thus manag- 

 ed, it is rendered the moft effectual fcreen. 



PRUNING HEDGE-ROW TREES. 



Hedge-row trees, efpecially fuch as are planted 

 in arable fields, although planted principally for 

 ornament, mould be pruned with more attention 

 to length of ftem, than fmgle trees which are 

 planted in the park and in the lawn. It is a gal- 

 ling thing for the corn-farmer to be interrupted 

 by the pendulous branches of the Beech, or the 

 Elm, in his operations in the field. To the gra- 

 zier, however, fuch a circumftance would rather 

 be an advantage. Yet fuch trees, at any diflance, 

 want all the character of large trees, appearing 

 rather like great bufhes ; and ccnfequently they 

 can feldom be accounted beautiful in the fituation 

 of hedge-row trees. Thofe hedgerow trees which 



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