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52. However, there is one thing, \vhich 

 must not be omitted; and that is, that the hedge 

 will not be a fence , or, at least, I would not 

 look upon it as such, until it had been planted 

 sioc years. During these six years, there must 

 be a fence all round on the outside of it, to keep 

 off pigs, sheep and cattle ; for as to the two- 

 legged assailants nothing will keep them off 

 except a quick-set hedge. If I had to make this 

 temporary fence i it should be a dead hedge -, made 

 of split hickory rods, like those that hoops are 

 made of, and with stakes of the stoutest parts of 

 the same rods, or of oak saplins, or some such 

 things. The workmanship, of this, if I had a 

 Hampshire or Sussex hedger, would not cost 

 me more than six cents a rod; perhaps, the stuff 

 Would not cost more than a quarter of a dollar a 

 rod; and this fence would last, with a little 

 mending, as long as I should want it. But,* as 

 few good hedgers come from England, and as 

 those who do come appear to think, that they 

 have done enough of hedging in their own coun- 

 try, or, if they be set to hedging here, seem to 

 look upon themselves as a sort of conjurors aad 

 to expect to be paid and treated accordingly, the 

 best way, probably, is, to put up a temporary 

 post-and-rail fence, sufficient to keep out a suck- 

 ing pig; and to keep this fence standing until 

 i.he hedge has arrived at the age of six years, 

 as before mentioned. 



53. There yet remains one advantage, and 

 that not a small one, that a quickset hedge pos- 

 sesses over every other sort of fence ; and that 

 is, that it effectually keeps out poultry, the de- 

 predations of which, in a nice garden, are so 



