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from the foot to the top,,fo as to become impalTable. Either 

 of thofe plants will make a better hedge when planted in 

 two rows eighteen inches diflant from each other. 



Twelve years ago, an induftrious gentleman of the 

 Agricultural Society of Lyons, made a trial which deferves 

 our utmoft attention : He planted hedges of mulberry, which 

 befides ' the above-mentioned advantages, produce a greater 

 one, being the food J or tJiefilk -worm. 



As it would be beyond the limits of my fubjeft, to enter 

 on any particulars about the raifmg of filk I fhall ; attempt 

 in another communication to lay before the Society an eafy 

 and clear method upon that rich branch of Agriculture : It 

 is fufficient at prefent to ihew the conneclion of it with our 

 mulberry hedges, as a (Irong inducement to give the preference 

 to that kind of hedges. 



I ihall alk leave only to relate a curious inflance of the 

 utility of thofe hedges. 



The 20Lh of April, 1784, after the filk worms were out 

 of their firil mev/ing, about twelve hundred of them were 

 fpread upon a mulberry hedge. They remained expofed to 

 the intemperance of the feafon ; which, having been very 

 cold, left little hopes of their fucceeding : . We took care to 

 vifit them every day, and particularly during the violent rains 

 and the mod boiflerous weather : they were never feen very 



