I have seldom found great opposition to my hints for planting, but to cutting down trees innumerable obstacles present themselves; as if, unmindful of their value, and heedless of their slow growth, I should advise a military abbatis, or one general sweep, denuding the face of a whole country. What I should advise both at BURLEY and at CASHIOBURY,* would be to open some large areas within the woods, to produce a spacious internal lawn of intricate shape and irregular surface, preserving a sufficient number of detached trees or groups, to continue the general effect of one great mass of wood. *[This advice has been followed at Cashiobury since the above pages were witten, and the effect is all that I had promised to myself.]
