Trenching for planting

If the same money which has been spent in planting hedges, and clipping them afterwards, had been laid out in trenching the ground previously to its being planted, and in thinning out the trees in due time; instead of clumps and belts of the most offensive formality, in many cases so crowded with trees as to be alike devoid of beauty and utility, as at Culzean Castle, for example, we should by this time have had open, airy groups of large trees, without fences, in the interior of parks; and round them marginal woods of trees, twice the size they now are.