FENCING. 



quicks have been planted, cut the front one 

 by the surface, and the other at four or five 

 feet high ; dress, and scour up the bank and 

 ditch, as above. Thus will be formed a new 

 hedge, backed with a living palisado ; which, 

 for encouraging and giving place to the 

 former, must be kept as such, by clearing 

 the stems of all shoots on the side next to it, 

 until it become a fence. The other may 

 then be cut down ; and this will tend to 

 keep the bottom of the hedge thick and 

 close for many successive years. 



The season of cutting, in any of the above 

 cases, is, from the first of September to the 

 first of May. But I cannot subscribe to cut- 

 ting over a hedge, which is afterwards to be 

 trained for a fence, at Midsummer ; although 

 I have witnessed it in more than one in- 

 stance. I hardly conceive this to be rational 

 management. 



