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On Hedges. 



\The following postscript to the paper on hedges by 

 Mr Taylor^ xvas not received in time for insei'tion in the 

 proper place, — See page 102.]] 



I have chiefly confined this memoir to the actual 

 process of the experiment, but I will add two altera- 

 tions, I purpose to make, with the reasons for them. 

 One is, to forbear to cut oft' any boughs, six inches 

 from the stem, to weave them into the hedge, as they 

 become long enough, for which their pliancy, whilst 

 young, is peculiarly adapted, and to confine the prun- 

 ing to the object of keeping the hedge low enough, un- 

 til it is sufficiently close. The other is, to manure 

 with live boughs of cedar or pine, in place of dead stuff", 

 having found them by far the richest manure, and that 

 by packing live boughs in a line three feet wide, or 

 eighteen inches on each side of the row of young cedars, 

 so as to cover the earth completely ; it is probable that 

 grass and weeds will be smothered, the ground mellow- 

 ed, some culture saved, and the groAvth of the plants 

 accelerated. 



Virginia^ Caroline Co. Aug. "ith, 1807. 



