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the seed cause them to vegetate, a copious supply of 

 young cedars may be obtained, without resorting to the 

 troublesome and precarious fermenting experiments. 

 However provided, they must be sown sufficiently thin, 

 to supply each with the indispensable sod. 



The following, is the last idea, connected with the 

 subject, which may not deserve to be forgotten. It is, 

 to plant apple trees at eighteen feet distance along the 

 hedge, three feet from the stem of the cedars. The 

 apple trees, whose bodies are somewhat shielded against 

 the sun, seemed to me to thrive best. The manure and 

 cultivation required by the hedge, would I thought, pre- 

 sent us without any additional experice or labour, with 

 spacious and luxuriant orchards. The land under the 

 hedges, could not be devoted to so useful a purpose. 

 If public roads only, were by law to be thus bordered, 

 a splendid agricultural ornament, the comfort to travel- 

 lers of protection against the sun in summer and against 

 the wind in winter, and an annual pecuniary saving to 

 the nation by the use of cyder in place of ardent liquors, 

 to a great amount, would be returns intirely superero- 

 gatory to the benefits of living fences, made by the ma- 

 nure and cultivation which these fences, whilst young, 

 require. Under these impressions, I planted apple 

 trees (crabs, excellent for cyder, but hardly eatable) 

 around the hedge inclosing the stable yai'd, which has 

 now spread to within a foot of the trees. These have 

 borne, sparingly, this year, for the first time. I have 

 never seen trees more flourishing. It is only seven 

 years, since they were grafted. The lot is nearly a 

 square, facing the cardinal points of the compass, and 

 as the trees equally flourish, it is probable that live fen- 



