120 PLANTING. ^6. 



tunity, equally fortunate, of making my ob- 

 fervations on what may be termed the theory of 

 planting. 



But my mind being fufficiently employed on 

 the fubjedts of estate-agency and husbak- 

 CRY, I did not attempt, in Norfolk, todigeft my 

 ideas upon planting. I wasfatisfied with hav- 

 ing gained a general knowledge of the fubjeft, 

 and with having impreffed on my memory a 

 few leading principles. 



Hedge-planting, and the management of 

 HEDGE-ROW TIMBER, I confidcred as infepara- 

 ble departrnents of the management of ellates 

 (io nearly are planting and eftate-agency allied) j 

 and therefore {ludied them with unremitted at- 

 tention. I was alfo led, in a few inftancgs, from 

 the efhate to the plantation, as will appear by 

 Ts/linutes made at the time of pradice ; and wa? 

 alfo induced to mJnute a few flriking incidents 

 which occurred to my obfervation. 



But THE PROPAGATION OF WOOD-LANDS, 



merely as fuch, not being a practice of the 

 Diftrifl, I had few opportunities of making 

 obfervations on that important fubjecSt. Orna- 

 mental plantations, about the rcfjdcncies of 

 men of fortune, are here, as in other Diftriifls, 



falliipnabk ; 



