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growing oak trees : — where is the prospect 

 of producing a rival to that of Hatfield Bog 

 celebrity ? They who have the management 

 of the timber in places of this kind, and who 

 attend too much to the scenery, neglect one 

 consideration which surely ought to be ap- 

 parent in all their proceedings, namely, the 

 future look of the place, as well as the 

 present one : they should bear in mind that 

 by cutting a glade here, an opening there, 

 taking down a few trees to shew that spire 

 or this steeple, and a windmill or two, the 

 wind is admitted to the trees which remain ; 

 they soon become dead topped and unsightly 

 to all who admire healthy vegetation : posterity 

 will have little to thank them for but a few 

 decayed and mutilated stumps. Some may 

 have an idea that such contrivances give an 

 air of grandeur to a place ; it is only the 

 appearance that plated articles bear upon 

 a sideboard : — gratifying to none but novices. 



Possibly when the amount of the profit 

 to be obtained by judicious management of 



