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care. There are several blanks in the clusters 

 which should be filled up ; also a number of sin- 

 gle trees could be put in throughout this park, parti- 

 cularly in the high parts of it, with great propriety 

 and advantage to the look of the place, and to pro- 

 tect them, enclose singly, as before recommended. 

 With great advantage, a number of transplanted old 

 pollard trees could be put in, which would greatly 

 improve the look of this field. 



. No. XXVL 



— Meadow. 



In the clusters and rows of trees in this meadow^ 

 there has been some of the most unaccountable cut- 

 ting and thinning that I have ever met with : — For 

 the most part a number of trees, not fewer than six 

 and seven in many places, particularly the north 

 side, have been all cut out of one place, which has 

 made great blanks and gaps in many places. Healthy 

 trees have been cut out very lately, and that not a 

 few, which is spoiling these plantations very much, 

 and in such a wanton manner, as it is totally impos- 

 sible to account for such conduct. What the hand 

 of the unskilful and merciless thinner has thought 

 worth his while to leave, the ravages of winter have 

 laid hold of ; the improper thinning has let in and 

 laid open to the storm many places, so that numbers 

 are now and then blown down, and will be so to the 

 end — plant as in No, XXIV. The roots of the trees 

 cut are left so high, that it is really, to a lover oi' a 

 beautiful lawn and fine trees, truly disgusting. 



