FENCING. 265 



CHAP. X. 



ON VARIOUS MODES OF FENCING. 



Preamble. 



ALTHOUGH this subject be, in some 

 measure, foreign to that of PLANTING, 

 yet it is so far connected with it, that a Trea- 

 tise on Planting, without embracing at least 

 one rational mode of Fencing, might be 

 deemed incomplete. For it is not to be sup- 

 posed, that when once trees are stuck into the 

 ground, the business of Planting is finished ; 

 or, that they are afterwards to be abandoned 

 to fate, without farther care. 



But, how much cause have we for censure 

 respecting this point ! truely, too much. 

 In many instances, we find plantations left 

 entirely unfenced ; in others, a mock ditch 



