Some sort or other, it will not be able to support a stout 
and vigorous hedge, 
When an intended hedge-course chances to cross 
over any spaces of barren land, these are to be made 
equally fertile with the generality of the soil, if practi- 
cable. Such being frequently very differently constitu- 
ted, will require a peculiar preparation, as the nature of 
each may seem to demand. If broken rocks or stones 
should come in the way, they must obviously be clear- 
ed out to a sufficient depth, and their places supplied 
with good mould. And if such spaces are composed 
of an earth unwholesome or pernicious to vegetation, 
a trench must be dug in the direction of the hedge 
course, as far as is requisite, of six or eight feet wide, 
and some other soil, the best. that can be obtained near 
at hand, substituted in place of the bad; in short, the 
Sagacity of any farmer will be able in such cases to 
determine how to proceed. All such accidental im- 
pediments however, are to be considered in due time, 
and measures taken to overcome them before the 
hedge is planted, that it may thrive equally and be uni- 
formly strong throughout. The temporary fencing and 
the preparation of the hedge course being duly con- 
sidered, while the young plants are yet growing in the 
nursery, when the hedge comesto be planted every thing . 
will be in an orderly train, and it will suffer no damage 
or detriment from an improvident conduct at the begin- 
ning. After all, in most cases the old fences being suffi- 
cient to last a few years, and the soil where the hedge 
is intended to stand, being in an ordinary state of clean 
cultivation, nothing else will be necessary, but to plough 
the hedge-course, harrow it smooth, run a deep furrow 
