Litchfield enquirer., 1836-03-24
ENGLISH CULTIVATION.

had heard and read much, before | went to England, ofthe beauty fits scenc- ry, the perfection of it's roads, and of the high state of cultivation which prevails throughout the country. But when came to sec those things with my own eyes, found that my previous conceptions were extremely inadequate. I cannot do uS- ,ice, at all, to any of :hose objects which interested aud delighted mo Q" .''"e" 'l'" moment saw them. But imagine your self safely landed, as I was, at Liverpool in the month of April. You recollect that in New England, and even much farther sou,h, winter still lingers--shat the iel''s are brown, the trees lcaflcss, and the roads bad. Not SO in England. You take the coach for London. As you go out of town you arc very much surprised to see deep June vegetation, especially when you recollect that you are in the fiI- ty-four,h degree of North latitude, and you ascribe it to some peculiar advantage of soil, or early exposure. But as you are borne rapidly along, you find other fields still more verdant. The scene opens wid- CT. Field beyond field, and lawn beyond lawn, rises in endless prospective. The farms are regularly laid out into squares and paralleIlograms, of from two to forty acres: : and in general are laid down as smooth level as the roller can make them. Here is a luxurian, wheat field, and there q meadow, and next rich pasture, and there busy preparations for putting in potatoes or turnips and there barley or oats just shooting up from the dark and rich soil.- But scarcely arod of fence, such as we meet Iwith every where in the U. s. of America, do yon see in your two hundred miles ride from Liverpool to the metropolis. All is kawth0rn and these hedges, which are for the most part kept neatly trimmed about the garden and farm houses, aud by the roadside. add more to the beauty of the country than any description had pictured upon my mind. The common method Ot making the hedge is t,is first the ridge is thrown up, perhaps q foot above the level nf tho H~IAs ."hi"i, a"n ." i,a f"nced off :: then the y"nng thorn is t" be planted in two paralled rows, about foot or cigh- teen inches apart. The growth is not very rapid but when it has attained the height of four or five feet, in about as many years, it becomes so dcMse that no domestic an'- mals would think of breaking through it,
 The leaf is small, deeply verdan', and beautifully scrrated. In the month of May 1 these he'd ges are clothed with white fra grant blossom, very much resembling that of the thorn in our own country; and it then that the honeysuckle and other wild flowers unfold their bright hnes aud mingle their sweetness with the hawthorn. In the hedges, trees, such as the oak, the elm, and the horse chesnut, are planted, some- times in rows. near together, but oftencr far apart, SO that each one rises and waves by itself over the humblcr, but po less charming growth below. Single trees are very large, are sprinkled here and there in every direction, and every now and then you catch q glimpse in the distance, of a grove, or circular clump, which adds not a little to the beauty of the landscape.
 Let me not be understood as intending to con6ne these remarks to what l saw of the country between Liverpool and , London, as # they were richer or more highly cultivated than other parts through