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HOW TO GROW GOOD FENCES. 



and ultimately so discourage them that they all hut 

 die out, and it is not at all difficult to see that the 

 success of the interlopers is only augmented by the 

 injuries to the quicks. 



A more minute inquiry into the natural history 

 and mode of operation of hedge-row weeds will he 

 best preceded by a list of such plants as may be 

 considered to act as weeds in a properly planted 

 whitethorn hedge. 



In doing this we may premise that, if our object has 

 been to plant quicks, interlopers of all kinds, whether 

 trees or shrubs — in fact, all but the plant which 

 we have purchased and planted — can scarcely be 

 considered other than as weeds. To these inter- 

 lopers, then, we may add the following list, as 

 containing a series of plants that will be, perhaps, 

 more generally recognized as weeds : — 



LIST OF HEDGE-ROW WEEDS. 



Botanical Name. 



Trivial Name. 



Salix species 



Berberis vulgaris .... 

 Rosa species ... ......... 



Rubus species 



Clematis vitalba .... 



Hedera helix . . 



Solarium dulcamara . . 

 Tamus communis ... . . 



Bryonia dioica 



Humulus lupulus .... 

 Convolvulus sepium . . 

 Galium species ... 



Glechoma hederacea . . 

 GeraniumRobertianum 

 Carduus varieties .... 

 Umbelliferse varieties . 

 Graminacece varieties . 



Willows, various 



Barberry 



Wild Roses (briars), various 

 Brambles, various. . 



Traveller's Joy 



Ivy 



Bitter-sweet Nightshade . . 

 Black Bryony ... ... _. . . 



White Bryony . . . . _ ._ ... 



Wild Hop 



Larger Bindweed ....... ... 



Bedstraw, various... ... ... . . 



Ground Ivy „ . . ... ... ... 



Herb, Robert Cranesbill . . 

 Various Thistles . . ... ... ... 



Hedge Parsley, &c. ._ . . ... 



Grasses ....,..._. ... ... ... ... 



Spinous uuder- 

 shrubs. 



Woody climbing 

 plants. 



j Climbing herbs, — 

 mostly twisting 

 around the stems of 

 the stronger hedge- 

 plants. 



( Weeds of the lower 



parts of hedges, 

 which smother out 

 young quicks, and 

 prevent the old ones 

 from being thick at 

 " bottom." 



