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are buried one year in the ground, to prepare tlicm 

 for vegetation before they are fown, it will not be fo 

 long before this will become a good fence, as is ge- 

 nerally imagined. Nay, from fome trials of this kind, 

 v;hich I have made, I have found, that thofe plants 

 which have remained where they came up from feed, 

 have made fuch progrefs as to overtake, in fix years, 

 plants of two years growth, which wxre tranfplanted 

 at the time when thefe feeds were fown. 

 And if the hedges are raifed from feed, it will not be 

 amifs to mix Holly berries with the Hav/s ^ and if 

 fo, thefe berries fhould alfo be buried one year, to 

 prepare them, fo that then both will come up toge- 

 ther the following fpring; and this mixture of Holly 

 with the Quick, will not only have a beautiful ap- 

 pearance in the winter, but v/ili alfo thicken the hedge 

 at the bottom, and make it a better fence. 

 But where the hedge is to be planted, the fcts fhould 

 not be more than three years old from the Haws ; for 

 when they are older, their roots will be hard and 

 woody ; and as they are commonly trimmed off be- 

 fore the fcts are planted, fo they very often mifcarry •, 

 and fuch of them as do live, will not make fo good 

 progrefs as younger plants, nor are they fo durable ^ 

 for thefe plants will not bear tranfplanting fo well as 

 many others, efpecially when they have ftood long in 

 the feed-bed unremoved. 



The method of planting, as alfo of plafliing and 

 pruning of thefe hedges, having been fully explained 

 under the article of Hedges, I fhall not repeat that 

 here, but fhall only beg leave to add the metliod 

 which is prefcribed by Thoipas Franklin, Efq-, whjch 



. he had long pradlife4 ip planting o^ thefp hedges, 

 which is as follows:' . ,:~ .,.; • ... 



He firfl: {ct out the ground for ditches and Quick ten 

 .feet.in^brg^dth: he fi^bdiyidedthat, by marking out 



two feet ana a half on each fide (more or lefs at plea- 

 . fure) for the ditches, leaving five in the middle be- 

 ^ tween them ; then digging up tv/o feet in the midft 

 :^ of thofe five feet, he planted the fcts in j which al- 

 though it required more labour and charge, he fays, 

 he foon found it repaid the coft. This done he began 

 to dig the foffcs, and to fet up one row of turfs on 

 the outfide of the faid five feet ; namely, one row on 

 - each fide thereof, the green fide outmoft, a little re- 



fo as the Grals mio-ht 2row. . . . ■ • 

 .After this, returninp; to the place he began at, he 



^ordered one of the men to dig a fpit of the under-turf 

 mould, and lay it between the turfs placed edgewife, 

 "as before defcribed, upon the two feet, which was 

 purpofely dug in the middle, and prepared for the 

 fets, which the planter fet wida tjij^p Quicks upon the 

 furfaceofthe earth almoft jipnght,^ whilfl another 

 workman laid the mould forwards about twelve inches. 





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, and then fet two more, and fo continued. 

 This bcino-finifhed, he ordered another row of turfs 

 to be placed on each fide upon the top of the former, 

 ^and filled the vacancy between" the fets and turfs as 

 high a§' their tops ; always leaving the middle, where 

 the fets were planted^ hollow, and fomewhat lower 

 than the fides of the banks by eight or ten inches, 

 that the rain tnay defcend to their roots •, which is of 

 great advantage to their growth, and by far better 

 than by the old method, where the banks are made 



- 100 rriuch Hoping •, and the roots of the fets are fel- 

 •dom wetted, even in a moifl feafon, the fummer fol- 



but if it prove dry, many of the fets, efpe- 

 cially^^the late planted, will perifh ; and even few of 



that had been planted in the beginning of 



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Tht planting being thus advanced, the next care is 



fencing, by fetting a hedge of about twenty inches 



bank on each fide thereof. 





high upon the top of th 

 leaning a little outv/ards from the fets, which will 

 protcft them as well (if not better) than a hedge of 

 three feet or more, ilandinp; on the furface of the 

 prou nd i for as thefe are raifed with the turfs and fods 

 about twenty inches, and the hedge about twenty 



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inches more, it will make three feet four inches, fd 

 as no cattle can approach the dead hcd^^e to prejudice 

 it, unlcfs they fet their feet in the ditch itfclf, which 

 will be at leaft a foot and a half deep ; and from the 

 bottom of the fofs to the top of the hedge, about four 

 feet and a half, v;hich they can hardly reach over to 

 crop the Quick, as they might in the old way ; 

 and befides, fuch a dead hedge will endure a year 

 longer. 



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He fays, he had a hedge which had flood five years ; 

 and though nine or ten tc^t were fufficient for both 

 ditches and banks, yet where the ground is but in- 

 different, it is better hufbandry to take twelve feet, 

 which will allow of a bank at leaft fix feet broad, and 

 gives more fcope to place the dead hedges farther from 

 the fets, and the ditches being fhallow, will in two 

 years time graze. 



As to the objeftion, that taking twelve feet waflcs 

 too much groundi^ he affirms, that if twelve feet in 

 breadth be taken for a ditch and bank, there will no 

 more ground be wafted than by the common way ; 

 for in that a Quick is rarely fet, but there are nine 

 feet between the dead hedges, which is entirely loft 

 all the time of fencing ; whereas v;^ith double ditches, 

 there remain at leaft eij^hteen inches on each fide 

 . where the turfs were fet on edge, that bear more 

 Grafs than when it lay on the flat. 

 But, admitting it did totally lay wafte three feet of 

 ground, the damage would be very inconfiderable; 

 fince forty perches, in length, two hundred and 

 twenty yards will make perches 7, 25", 9', or 7 poles 

 ^•, which at 13 s. and 4d. the acre, amounts not to 

 7d. 1 per annum.^ ; 



Nov/ that this is not only the beft, but cheapeft way 

 of Quick-fetting, will appear by comparing the charge 

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In the ufual way, the charge of a three feet ditch is 

 4d. per pole, the owner providing fets •, if the work- 

 man finds them, he will have for makincr the faid 

 ditch and fetting them, 8 d. per pple ; and for hedg- 

 ing, 2d. that is, for both fides, 4d. the pole ;■ 

 which renders the charge of hedging, ditching, and 

 fets, 12 d. th^ pple \ that is, for forty rods in length 

 40 s. . ", 



Then one load of wood out of the copfe cofts (with 

 the carrriage, though but two or three miles diftance) 

 I OS. which will feldom hedge above, eight poles 

 (fingle hedge ;) but allowing to do ten, to fence 

 forty poles, there muft be ^tjcaft eight loads of.wood, 

 which cofts 4 1, making; the whole expencefor ditch- 

 ing, fencing, and fetting forty poles, to be 61. reck- 

 oning with the leafl j for fcarce any will undertake to. 

 do it for lefs than 2 s. 6 d. per pole, and then the 

 forty poles coft 7 1. 



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Wherea? with double ditches, both of them, with 

 the plants included, will be done for^^d- -^Ke pole, 



/and the hufbandman get as good wages as with the 



. fingle ditch (for though the labour about therri is- ■ 

 - more, yet the making the table is faved,) which cofts 

 1 1. 6 s. 8 d. and the hedges being low, they will 

 make Setter" wages at hedging for a penny a pok, 



^ than at 2 d. for common hedges, which comes to 6 s. 



■ 8 d. for hedging forty poles on both fides. Thus 

 one load of wood will fence thirty poles at leaft, and 

 forty hedged with two thirds of wood lefs than in the 

 other way, and Coft but i !• 6 s. ^8d. w^ich makes, 



the other whole charge of fets, ditching, fencing, 



.and wood, but 3I. /'V^ v;^^^I;-^:-' /o^ v-"-. • -. 

 QU I C K-B E A M. See Soreus Sylvestris. : 



QJUINCE-TREE. See Cydonia. > 



QJJ INCUNX ORDERisa plantation of trees, 



difpofed originally in afquarc, confiftingof fivetree.s, 

 one at each corner, and a fifth in the middle, which 

 difpofition, repeated again and again, forms a regu- 

 lar grove, wood, or wildernefs, and, when viewed 

 by an angle of the fquare or parallelogram, prefents 

 equal or parallel alleys, j;. ■ 



Or, the Quincunx is the figure of a plantation of 

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