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FENCING. 



HAVING spoken of forest-trees in general, 

 and particularized those which I have found 

 best suited for our climate and adapted to our 

 market for timber of every age, and will repay 

 the planter or his posterity or successors, I 

 next speak of FENCES. 



For a green or growing fence quicksets 

 are best if you intend to keep them clean 

 and free from weeds afterwards, which can 

 easily be done, "if by a stitch in time you 

 save nine," by strewing a thick covering of 

 spent bark on the top of the copse you plant 

 your thorns in, and check the weeds with the 

 hoe when they first appear above-ground. 



