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As I have had fomc experience in rearing quick- 

 hedges, permit me to mention the method* 1 took 

 in railing and prclerving them. 



I have for more than thirty years cultivated 

 about one hundred acres of land, principally on 

 account of its being to me a pleating employ- 

 ment. When I flrfl: fucceeded to this eftate, there 

 had indeed been fome quick-hedges formerly- 

 planted ; but they had been fo badly managed as 

 to be of little ufe, and incapable of much im- 

 provement. I therefore rather chofe to plant 

 them a-new, than to run the rifk of unfuccefsful 

 labour and expence in trying to recover and bring 

 the old ones into good order. 



Some of my plants I raifed in a nurfery from 

 the haws, and others I drew up in the woods, 

 and wherever they could be found. I made my 

 banks flat, and three feet wide at the top, with a 

 (loping fide next the ditches, which were dug two 

 feet below the furface of the field, and one foot 

 wide at the bottom. The turfs were regularly 

 laid with the grafs downward, on that iide of the 

 ditch on which the hedge was to be raifed, and 

 the bed of the mould laid at top. My fets were 

 ftratt, fmooth, and even growing ones, and 

 planted as foon as polfible after taking up. 1 



planted 



