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tation of all forts of foreft trees in hi3 

 park, in order to fee how far the deer would 

 let them efcape: they eat up every tree he 

 planted, the beech alone excepted, not one of 

 which did they touch either leaf, branch, or 

 bark- it was 18 years ago, and they are all 

 now as fine trees as ever were feen. Next to 

 the beech, the larger!: tree is the filver fir, of 

 which he has many in 20 years, of a great fize. 

 After this the oak, which thrives admirably 

 well; then the Engliih elm. But the tree 

 which outgrows thefe and every other he has 

 planted but 5 years, is the Lombardy poplar. 

 The growth almoft exceeds belief! In 5 years 

 they are 35 feet high, and I faw many of 2 

 years old 1 2 feet, and the year's moots 5 or 6 

 feet. His hedge-rows, Mr. Mahon has planted 

 with uncommon attention, the ditches are fin- 

 gle, with a row of trees among or above the 

 quick, another row on the back of the bank, 

 and a third on the brow of the ditch ; thefe, 

 with a lofty growth of the quick, form fo thick 

 a fhelter, that one cannot fee thro' it, fo that 

 almoft. every inclofure has the appearance of a 

 field, furrounded by a wood. Of thefe inclo- 

 fures thus planted, he has 16 of from 6 to 20 

 acres each. Mr. Mahon's breed of both cattle 

 and fheep are improved by a bull and a tup, 

 which he bought of Mr. Bakewell ; and has 

 bred from them with great fuccefs. He is in the 

 fucceffion fyftem, which is, buying in a certain 

 number of yearlings every year, and killing the 

 fame number fat, from 5 to 7 years old : but in 

 common they are only kept till 4 or 5. 



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