a niTX! I'lnd of fence. 



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A NEW KIND OF FENCE DESCRIBED. 



•Tencks about land are a very expensive and trouble- 

 some article to the farmer ; whatever, therefore, tends 

 to diminifli this expence, and to render the fences more 

 complete than those now in use, will be accounted a valu- 

 able improvement. 



There are two principal descriptions of fences j walls 

 and hedges. Walls have the advantage over hedges, in 

 being an immediate fence, as soon as they are made ; but 

 they are expensive, and unlets made of the best stone and 

 lime, perifliable. 



Hedges, on the other hand, cost lefs money at first, and 

 when they are once completed, they are very durable j 

 but they require to be long nursed, and carefully tended 

 when young, so that it is many years before the person 

 who makes them can derive any material benefit from them. 

 It thus happens that they are too often neglected when 

 young j and if this be the case, it is scarcely pofsible to 

 make them ever afterward a complete fence at all. 



I am now to describe a kind of hedge wliich can be 

 reared at a small expence — is a fence as soon a^ made^ 

 —will continue perfect and firm for a great length of tjrne^ 

 without needing any repairs j — and, without rambling toa 

 much to damage the jrops around it, will afford a greater 

 quantity of brulh for fuel, or othea- purposes, than any other 

 kind of hedge new in use. 



To effect all these purposes, It will be necefsary to 

 prepare, near the spot where the fence is wanted, a piece 

 of rich clean ground, for a nursery, sonoe years before the 

 hedge is intended to be planted ; procure, in the month of 

 October or November, a sufiicient quantity of cuttings of 

 the talsam poplar ; — wood of the second year's growth is 



