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fafliionable : nor, however, as objeds of orna- 

 ment nierely, but likewifc as nurferies of game. 

 But it being my intention to confine myfelf, 

 in this workj to utility, rather than to treat ei- 

 ther of ornaments or amufements, I will, under 

 this head, only beg leave to recommend to the 

 proprietors of landed ciiatcs in Eaft-Norfollc 

 to propagate coppice- woods on the fprlngy 

 mar.o-ins of meadows, and on thofe incorrisible 

 fwamps which occur in almoft every eflate ; 

 and to remove the woody hedge-rows, fo dif- 

 jxraceful to Norfolk as an arable countrv : 



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raiiing, in the new-planted hedges, oak-tim- 

 bers, at fuitable dillances ; trainingthem up to 

 fuch height as will render the timber of the 

 greateft value, and do the land they grow in 

 the lead poffible injury. I will alfo beg leave 

 to intimate that the fpirit which, at prcfent, 

 very properly prevails of extirpating ash-tim- 

 ber from hcdge-rovv's, will, in all human pro- 

 bability, be productive of a fcarcity, in time 

 to come, of that necefliiry material in rural af- 

 fairs : and it is equally probable, that v/hoever, 

 at this time, propagates groves of ash, in 

 angles and vacant corners, will be incrciifing, 

 at 2, fmall expcncc, the value of their cflatcs, 



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