Plantation at Woburn

Very different from this is the drive too often adopted which is an open drive, so wide that it never goes near the trees, and which admits such a current of air, that the front trees are generally the worst in the plantation [fig. 233]. Add to this, that two narrow slips of plantation will neither grow so well, nor be such effectual harbours for game, as deeper masses; especially where the game is liable to be disturbed by a drive betwixt them. The belt may be useful as a screen; but, unless very deep, it should never be used as a drive; at least till after the trees have acquired their growth, when a drive may be cut through the wood to advantage [see fig. 233].