28 * APPENDIX. 



In order to iecure ftrong and durable hedges, to 

 form fences at once, another expedient has been often 

 pracYifed with fuccefe. The demefhe originally abound- 

 ed with fraall farms, many of which were well planted 

 with white-thorn and fome timber-trees, and, very for- 

 tunately, almoft all the ditches were either curved, or 

 otherwife meandered, fo as feldom to appear ftiffor 

 formal. In levelling thofe ditches, many of the 

 timber-trees and old thorns were of courfe fufrered to 

 remain. Indeed the whole of the latter was left un- 

 difturbed at the time of levelling the ditches, and their 

 roots prepared by Shortening them, and ufmg a large 

 portion of rich foil to excite plenty of new fibres. 



Such thorns, as were judged proper objects to 

 ftand for lawn platitf y were riot touched or docldred* 

 at the roots; the tops were only lightened, and fo 

 fafhioned, as to give them a propenfhy to fpread, 

 which requires both flcill and pains, and a little pa- 

 tience. But fuch thorns, as were intended to form 

 new hedges, were cut down within three feet of the 

 fnrface, and, in two feafons after, were formed into 

 hedges, with as much fafety as plants of four or five 

 years of age regularly raifed in a nurfery. Hedges, 

 of forty years (landing, have been thus managed here 

 with the greateA fuccefs. 



But 



* A phrafe of the writer, which he wiflies to have un- 

 derftood generally in preparing large plants for ornament. 



