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CHAPTER X. 
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WOODS AND PLANTATIONS, 
The county of Worcester is well stored with the 
various kinds of timber ; and contains as much as is 
consistent with the rich quality of its soil, adapted to 
better purposes. 
The hedge rows, through a large portion of the fer¬ 
tile parts of the county, are well stored with elm timber, 
the largest, finest, and, 1 believe, best in the kingdom, 
growing lengthy, tine, and large, and being generally 
sound and hearty, free from shakes and flaws; large 
quantities of this quality are now growing in the 
neighbourhoods of Hartlebury, Ombersley, and else¬ 
where, though great quantities have been cut down and 
carried to Birmingham, and other inland towns, and 
by the Severn and canals to Liverpool and the sea-ports. 
The elm timber here grows to a very large size; there 
is now growing upon a small patch of waste land, near 
Dr. Nash’s, of Bevere, an elm, whose trunk is nine 
or ten feet diameter, and containing some very long 
and bulky branches ; elm in hedge rows seems to occa¬ 
sion less damage to the adjoining land, than any other 
timber tree. 
The county is interspersed, in various parts, with 
poppices of oak of different degrees of growth; the 
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