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But in a tenant, who has no permanent in- 

 tereft in the hedges he occupies, negleft is 

 lefs criminal. — It matters not to him whether 

 the live hedges upon his farm remain fuffi- 

 cient fences one or /zt'o centuries. He is no 

 way concerned in the purchafe-value of the 

 cftate, unlcfs it be in the depreciation of it. 

 His plan of management (if he has any in 

 this refped:) is to make his hedges fubfer- 

 vient to his own intereft, efpecially when he 

 has no certainty of continuing in pofTefllon. 



Thefe circumdances are not mentioned 

 with a view of breeding ill-blood between 

 landlords and tenants ; but to endeavour to 

 convince the former, that it is a duty they 

 owe to themfelves and their fucceflbrs to pay 

 fpme attention to the live hedges upoi their 

 eftates. 



It is now a cuftom pretty generally adopt? 

 ed upon v/ooded eftates to appoint woodzvards 

 for the prefervation of timber and under- 

 wood. — And upon every large efhate, lying in 

 an inclofcd country, it is, in my opinion, 

 equally necefiary to appoint a hayward for 

 the prefervation of its hedges. 



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