HEDGES. X4* 



duals ; or, which is flill fliortcr, but dill Icfs 

 accurate — that of Handing at one end, and>, 

 by merely glancing the eye along it, putting 

 down a random valuation. 



II. But valuing the tops and flub wood, though 

 done in the moll accurate manner, is by no 

 means all that is necclfary to be done in fctting 

 out what is called " ditching:" every timber- 

 tree, and every pollard, (landing in the hedge 

 to be felled, fliould be cautioufly attended to. 



The timbers which are going to decay, or 

 which, to appearance, will receive injury before 

 the next fall of the hedge, fliould be mm-ked 

 to come down : if gate-pofls be wanted upon 

 the farm, fuch pollards as arc fit for that pur- 

 pofe fhoiild be fet out ; alfo all fuch pollards 

 as are already dead, or will not to appearance 

 bear a top equal to their prefent value, before 

 the next fail of the hedge, ought to be valued 

 to the tenant as fire-wood. 



in. Other very material things to be attended 

 to, are the young oaklings rifing among the 

 hedge-wood ; as well as the " stands," and the 

 GROWING TIMBERS ,* which ought to bc pruned, 

 znd fei up, in fuch a manner, as to give freedom 

 to the hcdgc-and the herbage growing underthem ; 



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