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Traveller's joy has woody ftalks, with a rough 

 bark; the leaves are fmall, and of a pale co- 

 lour, and it bears white cottony tufts in autumn; 

 it is more deftru&ive to young quick-hedges 

 than any other, overbading it like an arbour. 

 The root of this plant is not deep like the reft, 

 but care mud be taken to get it up entire, for 

 the leaft piece left will fend up frefh fhoots next 

 fpring. 



The firft plafhing may be performed at eight 

 years old, but this mould be repeated at fourteen 

 or twenty years growth; the firft will be the leaft 

 troublefome, — the laft moft necefTary. The me- 

 thod of plafhing being pretty well known in places 

 where quick-hedges are common, I fhall not en- 

 large upon it, efpecially as there are fome very 

 proper directions given in the Farmer's Magazine, 

 a work abounding with ufeful and interefting matter 

 to the hufbandman. 



But I would obferve, that at the firft plafh- 

 ing, all the rubbifh, weeds, and filth, fhould be 

 cleaned away from the roots of the young quick, 

 the fuperfluous ftraggling roots cut off, and a 

 quantity of the beft mould from the bottom of 

 the ditch lliould.be laid on them to fill up the 

 hole, and ftrengthen the plants; at the fame 



time 



