134 



bank, where almost to a tree they are growing from 

 the old stool. This bank would admit of a partial 

 thinning, but in its present state, while the deer are 

 at large in it, it would be doing the greatest injustice 

 to take a single tree from it, as, notwithstanding their 

 stinted state, many of them if dressed up would grow 

 from the old stools ; and here from the stony and 

 rocky surface it would not be so easy to enclose and 

 keep up a single enclosure round them as on the 

 other side. As it is plain the deer have no meat on 

 this bank, run a temporary paling or fence down from 

 the dike above to the new dike at the back or north 

 of Mr. — — 's house, nearly in a straight line to the 

 upper corner of the dike ; also a temporary paling 

 along the foot of the bank to the east, and cut over 

 all the old natural stools of oak along the top, and for 

 nearly half-way down the bank, leave all the fine old 

 healthy trees along the foot ; as also all the healthy 

 trees growing from the plant in the bank. Dress up 

 for the growth the stools of all cut ; plant up the 

 whole blank ground on the top of the bank up to 

 the dike in the same manner as directed in the other 

 side ; and in a very few years the whole of this bank, 

 which is fit for nothing else, will be covered with 

 fine timber trees, a number of which should be al- 

 w^ays kept up for ornament, and the ground kept full 

 of oak coppice, it not being fit for pasture, and cut 

 out every twenty years such as is fit for barking ; the 

 ground here being quite difierent from that on the 

 other side. This should be attended to immediately, 

 and in a few years, instead of old scraggy unthrifty 

 trees, there will be fine healthy beautiful trees, which 

 could be reared up for any purpose. As the deer 



