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can gather all the oiit-fide leaves, and af- 

 terward, Handing on the mfide, thofc which 

 are within, only by turning round to the 

 different parts ; for the trees are kept low, 

 and there is no neceflity for climbing upon 

 the different branches ; fo that in this me- 

 thod each tree is a fort of round hedge. 



But flat long hedges planted at proper 

 diflances, one behind the other, are both 

 eafier made and kept to their form, and 

 -can have their leaves more regularly and 

 fpeedily pulled ^ for, beginning at one end 

 of an hedge, you may pull, day after day, 

 all the leaves which are one fide of it, and 

 then, going to the other fide of it, you in 

 the fame manner pull its leaves, after which 

 you go to a frefh hedge ; but you never 

 return to pull any fecond growth of leaves, 

 which may fpring from an hedge already 

 pull'd, for the leaves would injure the 

 worms, being too young for their age : but 

 in fix weeks you might perhaps pull them 

 for a fecond brood. 



If your hedges run in length from north 

 to fouth, vvrhich will be their befl fituation, 

 as both fides will then equally enjoy the 

 fun ; in this cafe it is befl to pull the leaves 

 of the eail fide of each hedge, one hedge 

 E 3 after 



