. An encyclopædia of gardening; . Book 111. CULTURE, &c. OF PLANTATIONS. 965 6922. Hedge-rows frequently require to be altered in direction to improve the form,or increase the contents of farm-enclosures, (fig. 662.) Generally, and especially in 662 J. \. flat arable lands, this is done by eradicating such as are in unsuitable directions (a), andsubstituting others (6) in parallel, or at least in straight lines ; but in rising grounds, andwhere the surface will be improved by shelter, it frequently happens that a crookedhedge is superseded by two straight ones, and the interval (c) filled up w
. An encyclopædia of gardening; . Book 111. CULTURE, &c. OF PLANTATIONS. 965 6922. Hedge-rows frequently require to be altered in direction to improve the form,or increase the contents of farm-enclosures, (fig. 662.) Generally, and especially in 662 J. \. flat arable lands, this is done by eradicating such as are in unsuitable directions (a), andsubstituting others (6) in parallel, or at least in straight lines ; but in rising grounds, andwhere the surface will be improved by shelter, it frequently happens that a crookedhedge is superseded by two straight ones, and the interval (c) filled up with plant-ation. The advantage of straight-lined fields to a farmer is very considerable ; and whenthis object is procured in the latter way, an improvement is produced both useful andornamental. 6928. Ornamental plantations are no less frequently neglected than such as are considered chiefly , belts, and screens which have become thin, because they have not been thinned, are almost everywhere to be met with. In those neglected plantations, says Lord Meadowbank, where daylight maybe seen for miles, through naked stems, chilled and contracted by the cold, the mischief might, perhaps,be partially remedied, by planting young trees round
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