On Hedges, 



showing the mode of placing the thorn plant, and its 

 growth.* 



C, The top of the stone wall. 



D, The slope of the bank behind the wall. 



E, The thorn plant, growing up in front of the wall. 



A hedge somewhat resembling Mr. Neill's, is no- 

 ticed in the communications to the British Board of 

 Agriculture, vol 2, page 90,t as having been made to 

 a considerable extent by Sir James Hall, of Dunglass, 

 in East Lothian, who, it is said, ** first introduced it 

 on the East Coast (of Scotland) from Gallom." We 

 must therefore suppose that it is common in the latter 

 district. It differs however, from Mr. Neill's, in a 

 stone wall being carried eighteen inches or two feet 

 high, before the thorns are laid down ; and hence Mr. 

 Somerville remarks, it would seem impossible to sup- 

 ply any deficiency that may take place from weakness 

 of the plants, or accident, without taking down the 

 wall at least as low as the place where the dead plant 

 was laid, and if such deficiency should occur in seve- 

 ral places in the wall, the expense of repair would be 

 great, and the task arduous, whereas in Mr. NeilPs 

 hedge, vacancies are easily filled up, and is therefore 

 preferable on that account, as well as by reason of its 

 requiring fewer stones. 



* The cut represents the thorn in a sloping direction, but this is 

 unnecessary in laying them ; for they will take the perpendicular 

 direction, although laid horizontally, as directed by Mr. Neill, page 

 12, of this volume. 



t The paper is by Mr. Somerville, of Haddington, and er.titled 

 " Observations on the various modes of enclosing land." Tt is ilhi^~ 

 trated by numerous plates, and is highly interesting. 



