1792- a new \itta cf fence. 2<5/ 



best : after digging the ground properly, let tliese be 

 planted in a nursury in rows, one foot distant from each 

 other, and the plants six inches apart in the rows. Hoe 

 them, and keep them clean, till the plants have attained 

 a proper size, which may be in three or four years. If 

 the soil has been good, the plants in that time will be 

 eight or ten feet high, and the thicknefs of a man's 

 thumb, at the height of of four feet, which I Ihould re- 

 ckon a proper size for the purpose intended. 



When you have, by this means, or otherwise, obtained 

 a proper supply of plants, lay out your fields as you in- 

 te;id them, the winter before you mean to plant ; and if 

 it be a plain field, plough up a narrow ridge where you 

 intend to plant your hedge, or dig it with the spade, 

 where the plough cannot go ; give it a winter and spring- 

 fallow, to clean it from weeds, and loosen the soil. Dung 

 this small ridge very thoroughly j and as the ridge 

 needs not exceed six or eight feet in breadth, a very little 

 dung will go a great way ; and sow it with turnips. Hoe 

 them properly, and keep the ground clean. When they 

 are taken off in November, the ground will be in excel- 

 lent order for planting. 



When the ground is ready, take up your poplar plants ; 

 prune off the tops, at the height of six feet from the 

 ground, and, having trimmed the roots, plant a row of 

 them, by line, near the middle of the prepared ridge, at 

 the distance of not more than one foot from each other, 

 or lefs, if the roots will permit. Let these all slope in one 

 direction, as in the plate fig. 4. parallel to each other, in 

 the direction of the hedge, as at A B fig. 4. The ground 

 plan is represented in fig. 5. where the same plants are 

 represented ,- — those sloping to the right hand from A to B. 



When this row is con pletea thus, stittch the line 

 parallel to the former, at iLe distance of fiittenor sixteen 



