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they would recover, I did not replace themj but 

 I afterwards found it would have been beft to 

 have done fo, for they never grew fo as to over- 

 take the reil, and this hedge was unequal and 

 much inferior to the other. The principal care 

 now ncceilary was, to keep the quick free from 

 weeds, and well protected from cattle, till it was 

 of an age fit for plafhing, which, if it is healthy 

 and vigorous, may be done in its feventh or 

 eighth year. It will however be right to go over 

 it once a year during that time with a knife, and 

 cut off the redundant, or ill-fhaped and ftraggling 

 branches, keeping the face of it as fmooth and 

 even as poflible; and alfo root up all entangling 

 weeds, which, by confining it, would otherwife 

 fpoil its beauty, and hinder its growth. 



The weeds mod: deftructive to young hedges 

 arc, white and black bryony, bindweed, and the 

 traveller's joy. 



White bryony has leaves like the vine, and its 

 berries are red; the root is as big as a man's leg, 

 and runs very deep. Black bryony will grow 

 thirty feet long, and with irs clafping tendrils will 

 entangle and choke the young quick all the way. v 

 As its root is very large, it mud be dug out deep 

 to deltroy it. 



Vox.. II. P Travelled 



