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may sow cider-kernels in a rill, and fence it for 

 a while with a double dry hedge, not only for a 

 sudden and beautiful, but a very profitable, en- 

 closure ; because, amongst other benefits, they 

 will yield you cider-fruit in abundance. But 

 in Devonshire they build two walls with their 

 stones, setting them edgeways, two, and then 

 one between ; and so as it rises, fill the interval, 

 or coffer, with earth (the breadth and height as 

 you please), continuing the stonework and 

 filling ; and as you work, beating in the stones 

 flat to the sides, they are made to stick ever- 

 lastingly. This is absolutely the neatest, most 

 saving, and profitable fencing imaginable, where 

 slaty stones are in any abundance ; and it be- 

 comes not only the most secure to the lands, 

 but the best for cattle, to lie warm under the 

 walls ; whilst other hedges, be they ever so 

 thick, admit of some cold winds in winter-time 

 when the leaves are off. Upon these banks 

 they plant not only quicksets, but even timber- 

 trees, which exceedingly thrive, being out of 

 all danger. 



THE PYRACANTHA AND PAUURUS. 



The Pyracantha y Paliurus, * and like pre- 

 ciouser sorts of thorn and robust evergreens 



* The Paliurus is supposed to be the plant that com- 

 posed the crown that was placed upon the head of 



