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young shoots with bands of hay, they make 

 the stems grow so very close together, as that 

 it encloseth rabbits in warrens instead of pales ; 

 and for this robust use we shall prefer the black 

 thorn ; the extravagant suckers, which are apt 

 to rise at a distance from the hedge line, being 

 sedulously extirpated, that the rest may grow 

 the stronger and thicker. 



And now since I did mention it, and that 

 most I find do greatly affect the vulgar way 

 of quicking (that this our discourse being in 

 nothing deficient), we will in brief give it you 

 again after George Markham's description, be- 

 cause it is the best and most accurate, although 

 much resembling our former direction, of which 

 it seems but a repetition, till he comes to the 

 plashing. In ground which is more dry than 

 wet (for watery places it abhors), plant your 

 quick thus : Let the first rows of sets be placed 

 in a trench of about half a foot deep, even with 

 the top of your ditch, in somewhat a sloping or 

 inclining posture ; then, having raised your bank 

 near a foot upon them, plant another row, so as 

 their tops may just peep out over the middle of 

 the spaces of your first row. These covered 

 again to the height or thickness of the other, 

 place a third rank opposite to the first, and then 

 finish your bank to its intended height. The 

 distances of the plants should not be above one 



