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REMARKS
ON
THE MANAGEMENT,
OR RATHER, THE
_MIS_-MANAGEMENT,
OF
WOODS, PLANTATIONS,
AND
HEDGE-ROW TIMBER.
BY J. WEST,
Land Agent, &c. &c.
NORTH COLLINGHAM, NEWARK, NOTTS.
NEWARK.
PRINTED AND SOLD BY J. PERFECT, CARTERGATE.
LONGMAN & Co. LONDON.
1842.
TO
JOHN EVELYN DENISON, ESQ.
M. P.
SIR,
Having had the honor to spend nineteen years in your service as
resident Land Agent—having during that period, as well as since,
received from you many marks of favour—having on your Estate laid the
foundation, and to some extent tested the accuracy, of the opinions
which are given in the following pages; I am, I assure you, deeply
grateful for the kind permission with which you have favoured me, to
dedicate them to you.
If I were to allow myself to indulge in the expression of feelings,
which a recollection of my long connection with your Estates might
prompt, I should risk your displeasure, for I well know, how
distasteful to you would be the language of adulation; I shall
therefore only add, that it gives me pleasure to dedicate my Book to
you, because, from long experience, I know you to be the zealous patron
of improvement in every department of rural economy, and because you
are practically and intimately acquainted with the subject on which I
have written.
Encouraging as it would be to me if it were so, I do not expect
that you will concur with me in all the views to which I have given
expression: nevertheless, I trust I may be allowed to hope that, in
the main, the principles which are developed will approve themselves to
your judgment, and command your approbation.