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it, as hinted in last Section : it will grow 

 apace, and will soon become a good fence. 



If the hedge, in this case, is situated be- 

 tween the plantation and a pasture field, it 

 will obviously be necessary, either to fence 

 it off by a dead-hedge, or by a railing. But 

 if the bounding field is newly broke up from 

 pasture, and if it is positively to be kept in 

 tillage for three or four years, nothing of the 

 kind will be requisite ; as, if the hedge is 

 properly managed, by that time it will again 

 be a fence. 



In other cases, where the hedge to be cut 

 is getting thin below, too tall, and when the 

 stems are placed regularly within eight or 

 ten inches of one another ; and, when it is 

 necessary to retain a fence, at the same time, 

 cutting so as to have a supply of bottom 

 spray ; cut, alternately, the one plant to 

 within eight or ten inches of the surface, and 

 the other at four feet high ; dress the bank- 

 ing, and scour up the ditch, as above ; and 

 forthwith train, and endeavour to bring the 

 hedge into proper form, as soon as possible. 

 And lastly, in cases where two rows of 



