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rg onthe uses and value of the larch tree. Sept. 44 
and where of course that kind of wood can be got 
at a small expence. The thinnings of these planta- 
tions which are cut out when the trees are the thick- 
nefs of a man’s leg and under, are cut into lengths of 
four or five feet, according to the height of the in- 
tended fence ; these are pointed at one end, and 
sawed streight acrofs at the other; they are 
then placed in a row at small distances from each 
other, and driven into the earth with a wooden mal- 
let, leaving their tops all of one height. Upon 
the top of these is fixed a lath of wood sawed, 
the fence be made of laxch supports, joined together by sawed boards 
about four inches broad, running horizontally, at the distance of six or 
eight inches from each other, the branches of a jargonelle pear or | 
an apple of any valuable.kind, might be trained, horizontally along 
these bars as if upon a wall; and if one tree was planted on one side 
the fence opposite to the interval between.two trees on the other side 
of it, the whole might thus be filled on both sides. This could easi- 
ly be done by means of lists and nails or tacks driven into the wood; 
but even these two articles of expence might be saved, if a thin piece 
of lath were nailed along the upper part of each bar, leaving a small o- 
pening of about a quarter of an inch between the lath and the bar. 
Thus might the branches be fastened to this lath by means of withy 
er willow twigs, and no nails whatever used. 
Should currants or other berry bearing bufhes be preferred, they might 
be fastened by a similar contrivance, and the tops be allowed to advance 
so far above the wood as to give it the appearance of a live hedge. 
In rich grounds abundant orchards might thus be obtained, and the 
waste occasioned by their roots be plentifully repaidby the fruit. 
The only other use that can be pleaded “for live hedges is for af- 
fording fire wood. But this could in all cases be much more econo~ 
mically obtained, where necefsary, by appropriating a patch of ground 
of a proper size for the farm entirely to that purpose, as has been very 
properly recommended by lord Kames, as a necefsary appendage ta 
every farm. ; See gentleman farmer. ly 
