ii% FENCE S* g, 



mage ;— no general plan of training up the 

 trees with tall ftems having, I believe, in 

 any inftance been adopted. 



General Observations. From what is 

 here mentioned we may conclude, that the 

 advantages arifing from the planting of tim- 

 ber-trees in the hedges of inclofed common- 

 fields, of a foil, and lying in a fuuation 

 adapted to grafs, — arc far fuperior to any 

 difadvantages accruing therefrom, even where 

 they have been fuffered to grow in a Hate of 

 almoft total negledt. 



Land which has lain open, and which has 

 been kept in a ftate of aration during a fuc- 

 ccllion of ages, is equally productive ofgrafs 

 and frees. And it is generally good manage- 

 ment to let it lie to grafs for fome length of 

 time after inclofure. 



In this neighbourhood, it is evident to 

 common obfervation, that trees flourifli with 

 unufual vigour in the newly-inclofed lands of 

 arable fields ; and that their injury to grafs- 

 land is inconfiderable when compared with 

 the value of the timber they produce. The 

 Icwfpread'aig heads of the oak and the leaves of 

 the ajh appear to be the chief inconvcniencics 

 of thcfc two fpecics of trees to grnfsland. 



But 



