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good bearing plumb; likewife leave a handfome 

 ihoot of the white-thorn, and graft it with a medlar; 

 thus will you have a very produ6tive fruit-garden, 

 that will always continue, as you may perpetually 

 renovate by leaving frelh llocks every time the 

 hedge is new made, without any wafte of ground, 

 and a permanent hedge equalled by few, and by 

 none excelled. It is of confequence, as much as 

 can be, to have the hedge on every fide belonging 

 to the fame field ; then, when the hedge is new 

 made, the plough, which is the moft efFedlual pro- 

 testor, will preferve the whole fence without any 

 cxpence ; artificial protedion is very expenfive, and 

 very uncertain; it is of material confequence to 

 preferve a new-made hedge from the bite of cattle, 

 and perhaps nothing is more deflrudive than calves, 

 which will go round a whole field and bite ofi^ every 

 frefh Ihoot; afles are likewife peculiarly deftrudlive, 

 as they will not only bite off the frefh ihoots, but 

 likewife peel off the rind, and thereby deftroy the 

 fteepers, Howroever firm and flrong a hedge may 

 be, it will neverthelefs give way to violence, on 

 which account it is necelfary to have materials at 

 hand to repair any damages that may happen j it is 

 therefore very proper to have in each corner of the 

 field, a ftock or two of chefnuts for an occafional 

 fupply of Hakes, and likewife a ftock or two of 



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