280 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



and efforts of cattle to leap them, being too 

 much on a level with the field. 



Perhaps the most terrific manner of plac- 

 ing a railing of this description is, what may 

 be termed, something in the chevaux defrize 

 manner ; that is, in choosing the rails, pick 

 such as have many branches, and leave 

 them as knaggy as possible, in projecting 

 lengths of about a foot ; drive the posts, not 

 into the top, but into the face of the bank- 

 ing, a few inches above the plants, and in 

 an inclining position, so as to form an angle 

 of about 60 with the horizon. Nail on two 

 rails, one a foot above the plants, and the 

 other a foot and a half, or two feet above 

 that ; and thus, by the position of the posts, 

 and the rugged appearance of the rails, will 

 be formed a barrier which few pasturing 

 animals will attempt. 



Cthly.'THE MANAGEMENT AND FUTURE 



CARE OF TtfE HEDGE, now becomes an ob- 

 ject for consideration. And here, I cannot 

 help declaiming against those whose prac- 

 tice it is, when they have planted a hedge, 

 never to give themselves any farther con- 



