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As they will be of courfe very irregular, 

 from any eminence at a diftanc.e the whole 

 country will look like an entire wood, 

 beautiful furpaffing imagination, 



THERE is another improvement that 

 would render the face of the country 

 beautiful and fweet, viz. to plant red and 

 white rofes in all hedges. Honey- fuckles 

 are often planted, and are very fweet and 

 pretty ; but they are fuch great runners, 

 and grow fo thick, that they deftroy all the 

 quicks, therefore I would not recommend 

 them : fweet-briar will be full as fra- 

 grant, and be no detriment to the hedge. 

 The common wood-rofe is pretty in 

 hedges; but it grows fo vigoroufly that it 

 is hurtful to the quicks. The red and 

 white fpindle-tree might be planted in 

 hedges that are to grow high ; their berries 

 are beautiful in winter : and if fome 

 fiollies were fcattered at a difbnce they 

 would look cheerful. 



IT is a common practice (and as hedges 



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