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clear timber. Some excellent Hawthorne hedges have been 

 lately raifed, by planting one row only arfix inches afunder, 

 rather than two rows nine inches or a foot apart. Thefe 

 hedges have not been cut down, nor do they require it, to 

 thicken their bottoms, as they are at this time a complete 

 proteflion againft hogs, and in other refpecls form a beau- 

 tiful and effecftual fence. Nothing can be more evident, 



than that a row of plants fet thus fix 



inches diftant from each other, muft form a more complete 

 and efFedtual fence at the bottom, than an equal number 

 planted thus .•.*.•.".•.• at a double difiance, and 

 occupying the fame length, but a greater depth of ground 

 upon the hedge row. 



As the country rifes towards RIDGE WELL, the higher 

 parts of that parifii confifl of a deep, tender foil, upon a 

 chalky and a brown clay ; but on defcending towards Til- 

 bury, and the head branches of the river Colne, the clay is 

 loft; and in the low grounds, a light gravelly loam is found, 

 of a kindly nature, upon a gravel. Proceeding eaftward a 

 tender hazel coloured loam, of a good ftapje, upon a white 

 chalky clay, prevails generally through the parifh of 

 TILBURY, where, upon the fides of the hills, a few wet 

 fandy and gravelly fpots appear, but which in their prefent 

 (late are inapplicable to the culture of turnips. The lands 

 abutting upon the river Stour, from three quarters to a mile 

 in width, belonging to the parifhes of ASHEN, OVING- 

 TON, and BELCHAMP St. PAUL's, are a light fandy 

 loam, of a good ftaple, in which there is a mixture of fome 

 gravel, upon a brown tender clay and gravel. Thence 

 foutherly, and as the country rifcs, a clofe heavy foil is 

 found, but of a good ftaple upon a chalky clay. 



Hollow draining at a pole apart, and at an expence of 

 about three pound per acre, has been pra6lifed with great 



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