3^4 WOODS AND PLANTATIONS. 



Mr. Crowe, of Lakenham, is a great advocate for 

 trees in grass-land ; he has a pasture with many large oak, 

 ash, and other trees, with spreading tops, and he is fully 

 persuaded that he has to the full as much, and as sweet 

 grass under them, without waste, as if no trees were in 

 the field. This is novel, and an idea I have not met with 

 before ; it deserves much observation : Mr. Crowe's rule 

 is to admit air and liglit, for if the trees are close, or the 

 branches hanging to the ground, in such case the grass 

 becomes coarse and sour, and is refused by the sheep ; but 

 all is fairly and closely eaten under Mr. Crowe's trees. 



LARCH. 



Colonel BuLLER shewed me a circumstance relative to 

 this tree, which merits noting: old sows, if allowed to 

 get at thenm, will bark them for the sake of rubbing them- 

 selves in the turpentine : he had some killed, in this manner, 

 before he knew by what cause ; when informed, he ordered 

 the sows to be watched, and had it confirmed by his own 

 view. 



OSIERS, 



Planted in small spots, and along some of his hedges, 

 supplied Mr. FoRBY with hurdle-stuff enough to make 

 many dozens every year, as well as a profusion of baskets. 

 The common osier cut at three years j the yellow bark at 

 four. 



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