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the fhoots from the ftakes and fets will be long: 
enough to be woven flakewife; thofe from the fhort 
fets into the bottom and middle of the hedge, and 
thofe from the ftakes into the upper part and top 
of the fame. At that age they will be flexible 
enough to be wrought in without cutting, which jg 
practifed in older and larger fhoots to the great 
damage of the hedge. A fence thus managed will 
be very fecure, and ftand an age with little expence 
and trouble. 
To conclude: it feems as plain as demonftration 
can make any thing, that wherever fuch extenfive 
tracts of worthlefs land are to be met with, fituated 
and fo circumftanced as above, by being inclofed 
and planted as here recommended, they may be 
made to produce fuel fufficient to relieve, in a great 
meature, the diftrefs the labouring poor daily feel for 
want of it; to fupply a large increafe of timber for 
naval and domeftick purpofes; to increafe by its 
‘warmth and protection the corn and herbage of 
the fields, fo inclofed, to the very great advantage 
of the land-owner and the publick. In fhort, there 
is not an individual, from the princely owner of 
thoufands and tens of thoufands of acres, to the 
meaneft cottager, who would not be greatly bene- 
fited by it; therefore, I hope, I fhall be forgiven in 
earneftly recommending it to the attention and in- 
couragement of att who are bleft with the means 
of promoting fo great and extenfive a good, 
I con- 
