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any gentleman or farmer only try, and 

 they will find it turn to their advan- 

 tage. 



BEFORE I begin to give directions for the 

 planting the hedges, it will be neceflary to 

 give fome inftr actions concerning the raif- 

 ing the plants. 



THE berries are in general too foon ga- 

 thered ; they mould not be pulled before 

 the leaves are all off the trees. When they 

 are gathered, they fhould be thrown into 

 a heap, and lay for fix weeks ; then they 

 fhould be buried in a pit that is quite dry, 

 and fhould have an inch of fifted coal- 

 afhes in the bottom, and then a layer of 

 berries, and then of afhes, until all is 

 fmifhed. 



THE pit fhould be raifed a foot above 

 the level of the ground, and a fmall trench 

 made all round to prevent the wet getting 

 into the pit. Coal-afhes is better than 

 iandqr mould to mix with the berries, as 

 M 4 it 



