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and the Lothians, the finely-farmed districts of east Yorkshire, 

 Lincoln, and Surrey, and elsewhere may be cited as examples. 

 On the great cultivated plains of the Continent there are 

 practically no hedge-row trees, which are considered an 

 unmixed evil. It has been maintained that hedgerow trees 

 are ornamental in the landscape. To those who plead this 

 for what is a nuisance in almost every other way we have 

 nothing to say except that trees dotted in straight lines along 

 fences do not consort with the landscape gardener's ideas of 

 good taste. To the existence of trees along the highways, 

 bye-ways, and lanes there are fewer objections, and when these 

 are furnished the landscape lacks nothing in the shape of trees, 

 on a land otherwise fairly well wooded. There is no excuse 

 for growing valueless trees on good land on any estate on 

 which any land exists that ought to be planted. Trees for 

 shade are another thing, but very few of these suffice on any 

 farm. 



