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best trees might be singled out and little openings made, to be fed 

 by sheep occasionally; and another mode of producing variety 

 would be to take away certain trees and leave others, -where any 

 particular species abound : thus in some places the birches only 

 might be left, and all the oaks and beech and other plants re- 

 moved, to make, in time, a specimen of Birkland forest, while 

 there are some places where the holly and hawthorn might be 

 encouraged, and all taller growth give place to these low shrubs, 

 with irregular shapes of grass flowing among them. This 

 would create a degree of variety that it is needless to enlarge 

 upon. 



The course of the drive through Shipman's Wood, No. 26, 

 may be brought lower down the hill, to keep the two lines as 

 far distant from each other as possible, and also to make the 

 line easier round the knoll at No. 28, though an intermediate 

 or shorter branch may also diverge, at No. 27, towards the 

 valley. There is some difficulty in joining this drive with 

 the park without going round the gardener's house ; but as the 

 kitchen-garden must be seen from this part of the drive, and 

 as it forms a leading feature in the establishment of Bulstrode, 

 it will sometimes become part of the circuit to walk through 

 it, and the carriages may enter the drive again at No. 31 ; I 

 have, therefore, described two ways. No. 29 and No. 30, as 

 I suppose the bottom of this valley to be an orchard, through 

 which the drive may pass, or make the shorter line along the 

 garden-wall, to No. 31. 



The course along the valley is extremely interesting ; and 

 as some consider the farm-yard and premises a part of the 

 beauty as well as the comfort of a residence in the country, 

 I have supposed one branch of the drive, No. 32, to pass near 

 a large tree, and the other to go on the bank at No. 33, and 

 cross the corner of Hedgerley Green, which I suppose might 

 be planted round the gravel-pit ; but when the drive enters the 

 farm enclosures, it ought, if possible, to follvui the course of the 

 hedges, and not to cross a field diagonally. From No. 34 to 

 No. 35 is perfectly flat, and follows the line of the hedges to 

 the corner at No. 35, where a new scene presents itself, viz. 



