planted them at a foot diftance ; and about every 

 forty feet I fet young fruit or other trees, fuch as 

 a(h, oak, beech, elm, according as the foil fuited 

 them. I then laid in a fecond row of quickfcts, 

 on another bed of frefh earth, at the fame dif- 

 tance, and covered them over with good mould. 

 The planting thus ended, I finifhed the bank, 

 and fecured it properly from injuries by a dead 

 hedge well wrought together, and faftened by 

 (lakes of oak trees on the top of the bank at three 

 feet diftance. 



The time I planted it was the latter end of 

 February, which time I prefer to October, and in 

 general the plants fucceed beft at that time. In 

 autumn I cleared it from weeds. 



The following fpring I examined my hedges 

 carefully, fecuring the flakes where they were 

 loofened, and filling up any holes that were made. 

 Wherever any of the quick-fets had failed, or 

 appeared dwindling, I replaced them with frefh 

 ones from my nurfery; and alfo fuch of the young 

 trees as had been planted on the top of the bank; 

 and cleared the whole from weeds. 



In one field it happened that my fheep had eaten 

 off many of the young fhoots; but as I thought 



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