540 ON USEFUL AND BOOK 1. 



Price's Essays, I should have thought would not have been the 

 case. I lately saw at various places beautiful natural groups 

 changed into circular clumps by planting a mass of young trees 

 around them, as at Ditchley ; or changed into solitary trees by 

 clearing away all the lesser growths, as at Ingleston, Valley- 

 field, and several other places. 



SECT. II. OF INCLOSING, AND OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF 



FENCES. 



However well the ground may be prepared, and the trees in- 

 serted, in the first instance, unless it be well inclosed it cannot 

 be expected to prosper. It is too common, not only to fence 

 plantations at first in an insufficient manner; but to pay no 

 attention to them afterwards : a mode of management at once 

 irrational and unprofitable. There are a great many different 

 modes of inclosing suited to different situations and circum- 

 stances. That mode should always be adopted, which can suf- 

 ficiently accomplish the end at the least expense, unless orna- 

 ment be a consideration ; and then, a sunk fence, an open wire 

 rail, or some of the sorts mentioned in the former part of this 

 work, may sometimes be found preferable. 



