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OF SOMERSETSHIRE, 299 E PA | TV,] Cus ZT 04 e So n 4 2dly. Where Lands are ſituate on bleak and expoſed eminences,

improve the climate by judicious and extenſive plantations.

, E Though I am‘no advocate for ſtandard trees ¡n fences, 29 yet I think large and many plantations, in elevated fitua- the tions, are not only ornamental, but proûtable.

ile In this part of the kingdom, they ſhould be placed on the E South-weſt ſide of a farm, as the wind from e quarter Be is moîſt injurious. The Scotch fir will endure almoſt any a ſeverity of climate, and the ¿czech will reſiſt the deſtructive IVe

influence of the ſea-breeze; next to theſe, in point of hardi- neſs, are the /arch, the /ycamaore, the a/h, and the birch.

Such plantations may be placed at the angles of the large

- fields, or on ſpots too rocky and uneven to admit the M- plough, They ſhould be planted when young, and great : n0 care ſhould be taken to ſecure them from cattle; this is beſt e df done by a ſtone wall, for hedges are liable to be broken teen down by ſportſmen, and the work of many years may be cir- deſtroyed in one night. A ſpirited planter would rather ſee the cattle in a field of ripe corn, than in a new-made planta- ¡rer tion. The damage in one inftance is only partial, in the h!? other it is nearly irreparable, (he clo 2dly. Wherever marl, lime, or chalk, can be procured within aies a reaſonable diſtance, negleé# not a liberal uſe thereof E and {th if deſtitute of ſi(uch reſources, be careful to mate as much dung ther as poſſible by folding E» haufing all ſorts of cattle, preſerv- have ing urine, collecting wollen rags, malt-combs, aſhes, horn had ſhavings, bones,&c.&c Wt In the Northern part of the county of Somerſet, both y j ruge: E ¡

7 marl and lime are in great abundance. The former is dug

for about eight-pence per ton; and as it is the produce of adi che E E> E ER E FTE

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