12 On Hedging and Bitching. 



perhaps not excelled in any country : — keep them from 

 the shade of woods or trees as much us possible. 



Method of making the Hedge, 



You first lay down stone convenient to where you 

 intend your fence, say one cart load of middle sized stone 

 to 15 feet ; — then run your line where you design the 

 front of your bank, and close to that line lay one row 

 of stone compactly together ; then move your line 12 

 inches out, towards where you design to dig your 

 ditch : the last 12 inches remain in front of your bank, 

 to keep the frost from working under, till the roots 

 grow through to bind the earth together, which they 

 will do in three years :— with a spade cut along your 

 line the depth of a good sod, keeping the face of your 

 spade always in towards your ditch: then lift your line, 

 and lay it four feet apart from the last, and cut with the 

 spade as before ; then sod off the four feet between the 

 last two lines, and throw it back behind your row of 

 stone : let the mother earth on your sod be mashed 

 fine with the spade, and drawn in with the hand care- 

 fully to and over the stone to the depth of two or three 

 inches, then lay your thorns in a horizontal direction, 

 the top rather inclining upwards, at six inches apart. 

 Advancing two or three inches through the stone, 

 carefully drawing the nicest mother earth with the hand 

 over the root ; the next row is of middle sized stone, (but 

 be as careful as possible not to pinch your plant be- 

 tween fiat broad stones,) and go on with row of stone 

 and layer of earth until 3^our bank is three feet six inches 

 high, your ditch three feet deep carried down so as to 



