52 HEDGING AND DITCHING. 



closing our fields our method being either 

 with rails or stone. But in that country they 

 make extensive use of hedges and ditches. 

 Some account of this mode of dividing enclo- 

 sures in that country will be interesting and 

 instructive. 



Several different shrubs and trees are made 

 use of for hedges, such as the white-thorn, 

 black-thorn, furze, holly, &LC. But the white- 

 thorn is the most proper for fences, as it grows 

 quickly, is very durable, and makes a handsome 

 appearance. In Germany, the farmers make 

 use of a tree called the horn-beam. In the 

 United States some attempts have been made 

 to form hedges. Mr. Quincy, near Boston, 

 several years since, set out ten thousand of the 

 American Hedge-Thorn, which he obtained 

 from Virginia. But they, have not flourished 

 well, nor are they found so well adapted to the 



