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HOW TO GROW GOOD FENCES. 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 



ON THE PLANTS FOR " LIVE " FENCES. 



The native plants which have been employed for 

 living fences include most of our indigenous trees 

 and shrubs, with some few which, if not native, have 

 yet been for a long time naturalised throughout Great 

 Britain. The most important of these will be found 

 in the following list : — 



Group 3. 



Nut 



Privet 



Dogwood 



Spearwood 



Guelder Rose 



Elder 



Shrubs which for the most part 

 fill up badly -grown fences. 

 These are really weeds in 

 good hedges. 



In the first group, it may be remarked, that oak, 

 ash, and elm are seldom, if ever, planted for hedges ; 

 for in the first place these plants are usually too ex- 



