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HOW TO GROW GOOD FENCES. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



WEEDS OE HEDGE-ROW FENCES. 



As the hawthorn is usually recognized as the hest 

 plant for living fences for farm purposes, it will he 

 expected that this has heen almost exclusively 

 employed; but, seeing that this is so, and has heen 

 so for many years past, it is not a little interesting 

 to trace in all hedges a predilection to grow any- 

 thing else rather than that originally planted. Of 

 course, with anything else we wished to grow, such 

 interlopers would be eradicated as weeds; but with 

 hedges it would seem that all kinds of rubbish are 

 left to accumulate, until a hedge originally all haw- 

 thorn has become made up of extraneous matters, with 

 occasional "gaps," which are sure to occur where 

 other plants are allowed, to the prejudice of the 

 quicks. As examples, we append the following: — ■ 



Ex. 1. ANALYSIS OF A HEDGE-ROW ON THE GREAT OOLITE 

 COLLEGE FARM, CIRENCESTER. 



Whitethorn 2 



Maple 4 



Elder 2 



Maple and whitethorn con- 

 fused 4 



Elder 3 



Maple, whitethorn, and elder, 



confused 12 



Elder 5 



Maple, whitethorn, and elder, 

 confused 21 



Carried up 



M 



ft. in. 



Brought up .54 



Ash twigs 3 



Maple 2 



Ash 3 6 



Quicks 12 



Elm twigs , 3 



Elder 3 6 



Maple 3 



Elder : . 3 



Whitethorn and maple 24 



Gap „ 4 



Total . 



