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expedients. At No. el one side of the drive might be openedto
shew the opposite hanging wood in glades along the course of
the drive. AtNo. 2. a shorter branch might be made to avoid
the too great detour, though there is a view into the valley of
Fulmer at No. 24.  worthy to be preserved.- In some parts the-
width of, the- drive- might be varied, and some of the violent cur-,
vatures corrected; in others the best trees might be singled out
and little openings made to be fed by sheep occasionally; and
another mode of producing variety would be to take away certain
trees, and leave others, where any particular species abound: thus
in some places, the birches only might be left, and all the oaks and
beech and other plants removed, to  make in time a specimen'
of Birkland forest, while there are some places where the holley
and hawthorn might be encouraged, and all taller growth give
place to these low shrubs with irregular shapes of grass flowing
among them. This would create a degree of variety that it is
needless to enlarge upon.
The course of the drive through Shipman's Wood No. 26,
may be brought lower down the hill to keep the two lines as
far distant from  each other as possible, and also to make the
line easier round the knoll at No. 28, though an intermediate
or shorter branch may also diverge at No., e7, towards the
valley.   There is some difficulty in joining this drive with the
park without going round the gardener's house; but as the
I have distinguished, by Italics, some peculiar circumstances of variety, from
having observed great sameness in the usual mode of conducting a drive through a belt
of young plantation, where trees of every species are mixed together. There is
actually more variety in passing from a grove of oaks to a grove of firs, or a scene of'
brushwood, than in passing through a wood composed of a hundred different species
of trees as they are usually mixed together.-"