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PART II. 



HEFIEIV OF AGRICUirVRAL PUBLICATIONS. 



General View of the Agriculture of the County of Northumhei"" 

 land: nvith Ohjervations on the means of its Improvement. 

 Draivn up for the conftderation of the Board of Agriculture. 

 By J. Bailey and G. Culley. 209 pages^ %vo. Sold by 

 MefT. Robinfon and G. Nicol, London j Bell, Ne^ucastle ; 

 c«^ Symington, Edinburghy 



(Continued from p. 318) 



We have already given our opinion of five chapters of this 

 ufeful Report, and proceed with pleafure to examine the re- 

 mainder. 



The fixth chapter treats upon that neceflary branch of im- 

 provements, ' inclofures.^ In p. 6<^. we find the following 

 valuable obfervations upon the moll proper way of training 

 up young hedges : 



* It 13 a cuftom, In fome parts, to clip young quicks every year ; 

 this makes the fence look neat and fniig, but it checks their growth, 

 and keeps them always weak in the ftem, and, when they grow old, 

 open at bottom ; while thole that are left to nature, get ilrong ftems 

 and fide branches, which, by interweaving one with another, make a 

 thick and impenetrable hedge, and if cut at proper intervals, (oi 

 nine or ten vtars), will always maintain its fupertority over thofe 

 that have been clipped from their firft planting. In point of profit 

 and of labour faved, there is no comparifon ; and, for beauty, we 

 prefer nature, and think a luxuriant hawthorn, in full bloom, or 

 loaden with Its ripened fruit, is a more pleafing, enlivening, and 

 gratifying objett, than the ftiff formal famenefs produced by the 

 fheaz'S of a gardener.' 



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