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the thing on paper. The plants are those of the 

 White Thorn. This thorn will, if it be left to 

 grow singly, attain the bulk and height of an 

 apple-tree. It bears white flowers in great 

 abundance, of a very fragrant smell, which are 

 succeeded by a little berry, which, when it is ripe 

 in the fall, is of a red colour. Within the red 

 pulp is a small stone ; and this stone, being put 

 in the ground, produces a plant, or tree, in the 

 same manner that a cherry-stone does. The red 

 berries are called haws ; whence this thorn is 

 sometimes called the haw-thorn ; as in GOLD- 

 SMITH'S Deserted Village. " The haw-thorn 

 " bush, with seats beneath the shade." The 

 leaf is precisely like the Goosberry leaf, only a 

 little smaller; the branches are every where 

 armed with sharfi thorns ; and the wood is veiy 

 fexible and very tough. 



40. The haws are sown in drills, like peas, and 

 they are taken from that situation and planted 

 very thick in rows, in a nursery, where they 

 stand a year, or two, if not wanted the first 

 year. Then they are ready to be planted to be- 

 come a hedge. In England there are two ways 

 of planting a hedge, as to position of ground. 

 One on a bank, with a ditch on the side: the 

 other on the level ground. The latter is that, of 

 which I have now to speak. 



41. The ground for the Garden being prepared, 

 in the manner before described under the head 

 of Soil, you take up your quick-set plants, prune 

 their roots to withki four inches of the part that 

 was at the top of the ground; or, in other words, 

 ] eave the root but four inches long, taking care 

 -'to cut away all the fibres, for they always die ; 





