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4 the same space between the quick and the dead- 



* hedge, which prosper'd better than those planted in 

 ' the side of the bank, after the vulgar way, and hold 

 4 it still. This put me upon thinking, that a set 

 4 cheaper and better of quick-fence, might possibly 

 4 be found out ; and accordingly I made some tryals, 

 4 with good success, (at least better than the old way) 

 4 tho' not to my full satisfaction, till I had perus'd 



* Mr. Evelyn's Si/va, &c. The method I us'd, was 

 4 this : First I set out the ground for ditches and 

 4 quick, in breadth ten foot ; then subdivided that by 

 4 marking out 2 foot J on each side (more or less, at 

 4 pleasure) for the ditches, leaving 5 in the middle 

 4 between them : Then digging up two foot in the 

 4 midst of that 5 foot, plant the sets in ; tho' it 



* require more labour and charge, I found it soon 



* repay'd the cost. This done, I began to dig the 

 4 fosses, and to set up one row of turfs on the outside 

 ' of the said five foot ; namely, one row on each side 



* thereof, the green side outmost, a little reclining, so 

 ' as the grass might grow : After this, returning to 

 ' the place begun at, I ordered one of the men to dig 

 ' a spit of the under-turfmould, and lay it between 

 ' the turfs, plac'd edge-wise, as before describ'd, upon 



* the 2 foot which was purposely dug in the middle, 

 4 and prepar'd for the sets, which the planter sets 

 4 with two quicks upon the surface of the earth, 

 4 almost upright, whilst another workman lays the 

 4 mould forward, about 12 inches, and then sets two 

 4 more, and so continues. Some there are who plant 

 4 three rows of sets about 8 inches interval ; but I do 

 4 not approve it ; for they choak one another. This 

 4 finished, I order another row of turfs to be plac'd 

 4 on each side upon the top of the former, and fill the 



