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.age and growth as it does in Norfolk. Twelve 

 or fourteen years is coniidered as a moderate 

 growth ; twenty, and even thirty years it is 

 fometimes permitted to remain without cutting. 

 The ''' flubvvood," it is true, by this means ac- 

 quires a degree of utility and bulkinefs ; but 

 the " thorns" are in the mean time over-hung 

 and deilroyed. 



It appears by the heads of a lease * that 

 the top-wood, the ftubwood, and the loppings 

 of timber, if any, belong to the landlord* They 

 are however, in general, of more value to the 

 occupier of the land than to any other perfon ; 

 beiides the tenant havino- a degree of claim to 

 the refufal of them ; and it is cuftomary to fell 

 them to him at a moderate valuation. 



I. The method of valuing hedgewood is 

 as follow^s : the tenant having been confuked j 

 and the particular hedge or hedges to be felled, in 

 any given feafon, having been determined upon; 

 each top is (or ought to be) valued and minuted 

 feparately ; carrying the jlub'wocd in the eye 

 until fome certain quantity is gone by. But 

 a readier method is, 1 am told, fometimes prac- 

 tifcd ; namely, that of walking by the lide of 

 the hedge without particularizing the indivi- 

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