Hedgerow Trees & Hedges 
THE hedges and hedgerow trees are among 
the fairest possessions of our beautiful country. 
They form the chief features of English land- 
scape, and give to it a beauty unknown on the 
Continent of Europe, where field joins field in 
dreary monotony without hedge or fence. It 
has, no doubt, ever been so. ‘Trees were con- 
venient to mark off different holdings, and they 
were connected by live fences grown for shelter ; 
so hedges and hedgerow trees have always been, 
along with scattered remnants and other patches 
of woodland, among the great features of rural 
England. In the sixteenth century Holinshed 
tells us how, ‘in the woodland countries there is 
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