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Kvc fences mofl: readily kept within narrow bounds, 

 and in any form moft pleafing to the proprietor ; 

 but like all other live fences/ will grow hollow at 

 bottom, and from time to time require new making, 

 when its fuperfluous branches will not repay the 

 labour: moreover it is annually unprodu(5live of 

 any profitable fruit. 



The motives for inclofing open fields are obvious, 

 utility and profits therefore, as foon as it is deter- 

 mined to divide the land, the fecond confideration 

 is to divide it with materials that will be both pro* 

 fitable and ufeful. I have not the fmalleft doubt, 

 but that if all the hedges in England had been ori- 

 ginally planted in the moft profitable manner, they 

 would have for centuries paft produced, and would 

 continue t^ produce, beverage, and rnaterials for a 

 fufficient fupply of fpirits, for the inhabitants of 

 the whole kingdom ^ and likewife a fufficiency of 

 food for fattening all the hogs,* and paying the 

 expence§ of new making, as often as occafion re- 

 quires; and all this without being more injurious 

 to the land than the hedges now in ufe. Will you 

 pardon my poIntiBg out a mode, that I am per- 

 fuaded would produce all thefe advantages ? 



To obtain all thefe benefits, plant at the diftance 

 of every twelve, fixteen, or twenty feet, a Spanifh 

 • Surely not all, 



chefnut. 



