. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. , may be put in with advantage. We would not, however, advisethe uniform mode of planting recommended by Pitt in his Survey of Staffordshire, and inThe Code of Agricultures that of always having a round clump in the point of intersection ofthe fences of fields. This we conceive to be one of the most certain modes ever suggestedof deforming the surfa
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. , may be put in with advantage. We would not, however, advisethe uniform mode of planting recommended by Pitt in his Survey of Staffordshire, and inThe Code of Agricultures that of always having a round clump in the point of intersection ofthe fences of fields. This we conceive to be one of the most certain modes ever suggestedof deforming the surface of a country by planting ; the natural character of the surfacewould be counteracted by it, and neither variety nor grandeur substituted; but a mono-tony of appearance almost as dull and appalling as a total want of wood. 3913. AVnr all buildings* few trees may in general be introduced ; carefully howeveravoiding gardens and rick-yards, or shading low buildings. In general fewest treesshould be planted on the south-east side of cottages ; and most on their north-west side;farms and farm buildings in very exposed situations (Jig. 588.), and also lines of cottages,may be surrounded or planted on the exposed side by considerable masses. 588. 3914. Wherever shelter or shade is required, plantations are of the first consequence,whether as masses, strips, rows, groups, or scattered trees ; all these modes may occa-sionally be resorted to with advantage even in farm lands. 3915. Wherever a soil cannot by any ordinary process be rendered fit for corn or grass, andwill bear trees, it may be planted, as the only, or perhaps the best, mode of turning it toprofit There are some tracts of thin stony or gravelly surfaces covered with moss, orvery scantily with heath, and a few coarse grasses, which will pay for no improvementwhatever, except sowing with the seeds of trees and bushes. These growing up will,after a series of years, form a vegetable soil on the surface. The larch, Scotch pi
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