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the top of the flakes (hould be rubbed off 

 at leaft four times in a fummer. This 

 will caufe the flakes to pufti many flrong 

 fide-fhoots, which all grow almoft hori- 

 zontally, and will foon meet. 



To rub off the top-fhoots of the live 

 flakes would be a trifling expence ; a man 

 might go over a large farm in a day, if all 

 the hedges were laid in one year, which 

 never happens. 



I F hedges were managed as here di- 

 rected, the expence would not be (b much 

 as it is in the common way, becai\ie they 

 would lafl much longer, and be much 

 better fences. 



IT is the common practice to plant trees 

 in hedges, and is recommended as bene- 

 ficial ; but it is aq exceeding bad practice, 

 and fpoils the hedges, for they grow to 

 fhort boles and large heads ; fo far as the 

 branches hang the fence is very weak, and 

 the trees are never of great value. 



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