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but the drive was only made among tlie 

 trees, and under the shade of their 

 branches. 



The last fashion of belt, which Brown The 



modern 



never made, is an open drive so wide, that Beit. 

 it never goes near the trees, and which 

 admits such a current of air, that the 

 front trees are generally the worst in the 

 plantation: add to this, that two narrow 

 slips of planting will neither grow so well, 

 nor be such effectual harbours for game, 

 as deeper masses, espe,cially when the 

 game are liable to be disturbed by a drive 

 betwixt them. The belt may be useful as 

 a skreen, but unless very deep, it should 

 never be used as a drive, at least till af- 

 ter the trees have acquired their growth, 

 when a drive may be cut through the 

 wood to advantage. 



It is not only the line of the modern variety 

 belt and drive that is objectionable, but by its 



excess. 



also the manner in which the plantations 

 are made, by the indiscriminate mixture 

 of every kind of tree. In this system of 

 planting all variety is destroyed, by the 

 excess of variety, whether it is adopted 



