54 AGRICULTURE 



white with blossoms in spring time, like the 

 Kentish orchards, and heavy with fruit in 

 the autumn. Moreover, it was to be planted 

 on a great system which was to be original, 

 and surrounded with a fruit hedge instead 

 of a common thorn why not turn every 

 inch of ground to advantage ? This hedge 

 was to consist of blackberry brambles neatly 

 trained with standard damson trees growing 

 out of the thickness ; in front was to be a 

 row of alternate nuts and bush damsons, and 

 in front of these again plantations of goose- 

 berry and currant cuttings. Not content 

 with common blackberries I bought about 

 50 or 100 roots of wineberries to give 

 variety, and some hundreds of mirabella 

 plums completed this unique hedge. 



After three years what do I find ? well, 

 certainly, not the hedge, and nothing that 

 could be dignified with such a title. Some 

 gas lime shot down to make a gravel track, 

 outside my boundary, got mixed in with the 

 poor hungry soil and wrought death and 



