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124. How to set hedges. 



Quickset 

 hedges. 



Set young 

 oaks and 

 ashes. 



[Fol. S3*.] 



Clear away 

 the weeds. 



Never have 

 blackthorn. 



When to set 

 quicksets. 



How to set 

 quicksets. 



Make a 

 straight 

 trench. 



[Fol. 54.] 



124. \ To get settes and set them. 



And if thou haue pastures, thou muste nedes haue 

 quyckesettynge, dychynge and plasshynge. Whan it is 

 grene, and commeth to age, than gette thy quyckesettes 



4 in the woode-countreye, and let theym be of whyte-thorne 

 and crabtree, for they be beste ; holye and hasell be good. 

 And if thou dwelle in the playne-countrey, than mayste 

 thou gete bothe asshe, oke, and elme, for those wyll 

 8 encrease moche woode in shorte space. And set thy oke- 

 settes and the asshe .x. or .xii fote a-sonder, and cut them 

 as thou dost thy other settes, and couer theym ouer with 

 thornes a lyttell, that shepe and cattell eate them not. 



12 And also wede them clene in mydsomer mone or soone 

 after: for the wedes, if they ouer growe, wyl kyl the settes. 

 But get no blacke-thorne for nothynge, for that wyl grow 

 outwarde into the pasture, and doth moch hurte in the 



16 grasse, and tearyng the woU of the shepe. It is good 

 tyme to set quickesettes, fro that tyme the leaues be fallen, 

 vnto oure lady daye in lente ; and thy sandye grounde or 

 grauell set fyrste, than clay grounde, and than meane 



20 grounde, and the medowe or marreys grounde laste, for 

 the sande and grauell wyll drye anone, and than the 

 quyckeset wyll take no rote, excepte it haue greate weate ; 

 for the muldes wyll lye lose, if it be dyched in February or 



24 marche, and lyke wise clay ground. And make thy settes 

 longe ynough, that they maye be set depe ynough in the 

 erth: for than they wyll growe the better. And to stande 

 halfe a foote and more aboue the erthe, that they maye 



28 sprynge oute in many braunches. And than to take a lyne, 

 and sette it there as thou wylte haue thy hedge, and to 

 make a trenche after thy lyne, and to pare awaye the 

 grasse there the quyckesettes shal be set, and caste it by, 



32 where the erthe of the dyche shall lye, and dygge vp the 

 muldes a spade-graffe depe, and to put in thy settes, and 

 dygge up more molde, and laye vppon that set, and so 



