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an excellent way to lay down an acre of Quick and let 

 the plants get into a bushy state, and then we should 

 only have to send the cart for stout bushes, which 

 would at once form a fence. I know nothing in wood- 

 land work that would be more useful than such a store 

 of Quick. We can buy small Quick everywhere, but it 

 is difficult to get it really strong, and impossible to get 

 the bushes a yard high and nearly as much through, 

 unless we grow it ourselves. 



Some years ago I made a fence with old bushy 

 Quick, planting it on the turf bank common in the 

 district; the tough bushes were placed close together 

 and formed a fence at once, but as there were large 

 bullocks nearly always in the pasture on one side, it 

 was thought best to slip a single line of the slender and 

 waste tops from a Larch plantation through the bushes 

 at 2 feet from the ground. The fence made itself at 

 once, and no bullock ever got through or injured it. 

 The expense of fencing the Quick itself was got rid of; 

 an important point if we think of the trouble saved in 

 this way. But to carry out this plan it is essential to 

 put out young Quick and let them grow 3 feet or more 

 high, and the stouter the better. They transplant easily 

 and without risk at any time in autumn or winter. 



Simplify the fencing. In planting rough corners of 

 fields running into or near a wood we may often simplify 

 the fencing by taking a short or easy line, so that the 

 fences within the line become useless, and if among 

 these useless fences there is one of Quick which is not 

 very old, it is often well to move the plants to the new 

 fence after cutting them down one-half their height. 

 Having had occasion to move a bank and fence of not 

 very old Quick, I levelled the bank and took the 



