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fiipply the large quantity of nourifliment 

 which the leaves will foon require. The 

 earth where the cuttings are to be fet, 

 fhould have been dug, broken, and cleanfed 

 of weeds fome weeks before, and, if there 

 was a neceirity, enriched with fome good 

 loam, very old dung, f^nd, or OiliCi ma- 

 nure, fo as to make a fine Ic jfe mouid, 

 proper for the young fibres a' the re jts 

 to flioot into J in this make furrows of 

 about one foot in depth and two m breadth, 

 floping from the edge to the bottom of 

 the furrow, and of the length which you 

 defign your hedges ; the diflance between 

 each furrow need not be above four feet, 

 if you defign future plantations, by taking 

 away and tranfplanting one or more of 

 the intermt diate hedges ; but if no more 

 hedges are planted than you intend to ftand 

 in the fame places, then the trenches fhould 

 be four or five yards diftant. The ground 

 that lies between the trenches need not be 

 loft, but may be made ufe of for any low 

 vegetables, that will not overihade the 

 young mulberry plants. The trenches 

 fhould run from north to fouth, for reafons 

 given in the chapter on the form of a mul- 

 berry plantation. 



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