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If they regarded beauty, or ufe, or the faving 

 expence in the leaft degree, I think they would 

 follow the example of their wifer neighbours in 

 raifmg quick-hedges, which are not only more 

 ornamental, but alfo far more ufeful and profitable. 

 The benefits which cattle receive from their fhel- 

 ter in winter, and their fhade in fummer, and 

 which the owners would reap by the thorns and 

 fire-wood they yield, are matters too important 

 for any good farmer to neglect, without incurring 

 deferved cenfure. 



In all inclofed lands, the farmer mud keep up 

 good fences, if he would reap the fruits of his la- 

 bour; for by thefe it is that his crops are protected 

 from external injuries. 



There are many fhrubs of which hedges may 

 be made, but among them all there are none 

 equal to the white and black thorns, that will fuit 

 the generality of foils, and are eafily propagated. 

 But a good hufbandman will never think his hedge 

 finifhed till he has placed trees in different parts 

 of it, and of fuch kinds as are beft adapted to his 

 refpedtive foil. In order to know what kinds of 

 trees thefe are, he need only obferve which forts 

 flourifh beft on the fame kinds of foil in other 

 places. 



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