x82 THE MANAGEMENT 



CHAP. IX. 



On Fences, and their Management. 



HEDGES are the moft ufeful as well 

 as ornamental things belonging to a 

 country ; but the method of managing 

 them, in mofl countries in England, is 

 very erroneous. There is an old common 

 tract of fcouring and laying them when 

 they are grown fb bad as to be of little 

 uie. 



THE method of planting them is much 

 the fame, without considering the nature 

 of the ground, whether it is wet or dry, 

 a ftrong clay, land, or poor gravel. To 

 have good hedges it would be right to 

 plant them in very different ways. 



THERE will be many objections madq 

 by the country-men in general, as it would 

 put them out of their old way ; but let 



any 



