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dicular dire<rtion, lay your plants in what mannci* 

 you pleafe. After planting, no further attention is 

 required, but to cut ofF any crooked or draggling 

 fhoots, and to hoe the plants for the firft four yearsj 

 — the fences alfo mud be well fecured. Timber- 

 trees may be planted to advantage in the middle of 

 the beds, in Iquares of fifty or fixty feet, and if oak, 

 may probably arrive at maturity by the time the 

 flocks begin to fail. 



The method of raifing quickfet hedges alfo in that 

 part of the kingdom is a very improved one ; which 

 is to mark out the ground intended for the fence 

 with a line, on which lay your quickfet plants, cut 

 in the fame manner as the alh, at the didance of 

 eight inches from each others then cut a turf clofe 

 by the edge of the line eight inches thick, lay it 

 when inverted upon the plants, and fo on till the 

 whole didance is compleated; then lay another 

 row of plants at the fame didance on this turf, one 

 in the opening of that below, which cover with 

 another turf dug on the outfide of the other, taking 

 care that they are both laid on an inclined plane 

 from the ditch, which mud now be made by throw- 

 ing up the earth dug under the turfs, to the depth 

 of eighteen inches, to form the bank, and afford 

 nouridiment for the roots of the plants. The hedge 

 mud then be fenced with hurdles or pods and rails, 



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