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taking any pains to manage the trees, by directing 

 their heads to the right or to the left, fo as to affift 

 the quick-fet with a free circulation of air; which is a 

 fecret our people know nothing of. In fome cafes the 

 trees have been lopped too feverely, and in many in- 

 ftances have been pollarded, to the great deftruction 

 of the timber. 



In fhort there is very little attention paid to the 

 old timber, in hedge-rows, fcarce as it is. I hope 

 however, it may not be the cafe in future with the 

 young growth, as moft of the farmers and others, who 

 plant, have got into the habit of planting quick-wife, 

 moft commonly mixed, with thorn quicks, inftead of 

 planting tall, aukward, and ill rooted ftandards at the 

 backs and tops of ditches, where they are always ex- 

 f ofed to cattle and other infults and accidents. As to 

 the keeping of hedges in a neat, garden-like order, 

 cither by fquare or taper clipping, it is quite out of the 

 queftion, except in fome particular places, fuch as 

 about towns, and fome few farm-houfes of the fail 

 clafs ; but all are attached to the old mode of cutting 

 hedges, which caufes them to be always bare at bot- 

 tom. Hedges are feldom cleaned more than one or 

 two feafons, after being planted, and then are left to 

 chance. 



The precarious manner of procuring thorn quicks, 

 from Dublin, very often of a bad quality, and ai- 

 med always materially injured, by being too long out 



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