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recommends for the purpose, until it get to a proper size. 

 It is extremely difficult, and in a park where deer, black 

 cattle, or horses are kept, probably impossible, to succeed 

 in bush-planting, whateyer may be thought by those who 

 haye neyer made the experiment, on the perusal of Mr 

 Pontey's late work.* Eyen with sheep as the only stock, 

 the numerous small and dotted clumps of only a few 

 yards square, and fenced with wire, such as he proposes, 

 must be ten times more offensiye to the fastidiousness of 

 modern taste than the unfortunate clumps of brown, 

 which were gigantic in comparison, if the latter now, in 

 spite of the seyere interdiction of Messrs Price and 

 Knight, were once more to lift up their heads. But 

 with middle-sized plants, and a machine of small dimen- 

 sions, (as shall be described in the sequel,) the entire 

 effect of bush-planting may be obtained, and, I am cer- 

 tain, at a fourth part of the expense and trouble of Mr 

 Pontey's clumps. 



To select subjects for this purpose will be a matter of 

 little difficulty, if the rules abeady explained be suffi- 

 ciently apprehended ; and they must, of course, haye the 

 principal protecting properties, in as far as the degree of 

 exposure may require, especially numerous roots. As 

 bushes also, these plants must obyiously be low, from 

 four to eight or nine feet high, with broad tops, headed 

 down from time to time, and branches as near the ground 

 as the sheep will permit them to grow — that is, within 

 about three feet and a half — for on this last mentioned 

 circumstance their effect mainly depends. They must, 

 moreoyer, haye only one stem, or as few as possible for 

 the open ground, in order to admit of their being fenced 

 with facility, and at a small expense. In this way many 



* Rural Improver, pp. 149, 253, et seq. 



