28 APRIL 1933, Page 15

THE HEDGEROW'S DATE.

The supreme and peculiar beauty of England dates from the destruction of the woods and the destruction of the plains that succeeded. The phrase that God made the country and man the town is hardly a justifiable antithesis, in England ; for the garden, the orchard, the close, the field and the spinney are of its very tissue. The lines of this beauty are the hedge- rows. Mr. Glover regrets the silence of the historians on the making of England in the seventeenth and eighteenth century when the hedgerow came into its own. Well, the omission is to be made good. One of the chief of our agricultural authorities tells me that he is preparing his material for a volume on this very subject. * * • *