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Hedge-row in sand-walk planted by self across a field (years ago when I held field which had from time immemorial been ploughed & 3 or 4 years before the Hedge was planted, had been left as pasture — soil plants, chiefly Hard or clayed & very poor.— The following plants, have now sprung up in hedge — preserves how the seeds having been brought by birds, for all are esculent & the protection afforded by spinose thorns — a sort of common land—

Crab-apple	Plum (?) [illeg] root or sloe	Ash	winged seeds
Yew	Arum	Maple	}
Honey Honeysuckle	Cherry	Sycamore	}
Euonymus	Privet	Hornbeam	}
Rubus - several kinds	Ivy	Elm	} do.
Rosa 1 kind	Gooseberry	Clematis vitalba
2 genera of Cucurbitaceæ	Nuts, several, Beech do. Oak (several)	transported, I suppose by Rodents. some highly efficient means for Nuts & beeches

Cratægus oxycantha the seedlings, but not from plants fringing the hedge

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Birds alighting on clipped Hedge will cause more seed in dung to be dropped there than on open field, but maybe much dropped there & are destroyed by cattle. The thorn though profiting by its thorns & thus escaping being browsed— most of suffer from protecting other plants, for instance, which by their growth will soon annihilate their nurse.—

In endless cases we see how plants with fleshy seeds are transported by birds— I may give one case. As above.— None of plants in list spring up in our open field, where cattle or sheep graze.