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crops, and so become injurious, not to the hedge 

 alone, but to the farm in general. 



Some notion of these may be inferred from the fol- 

 lowing list : — 



1. Rabbits — By burrowing in the hedge-bank. 



2. Hedge-hog — Ignorantly included with hedge-row vermin 



by the farmer. 



, ) „ (These burrow or make the hedge-row or bank 



I If I a P^ ace °f refuge and concealment. 



4. Snakes — Erroneously supposed to be injurious. 



I Slugs | Both breed extensively in hedge-rows, which 

 ( Snails ) often form these hybernacula. 



Insects injurious to the growing hedge-plants. 

 Do. protected by the hedge, and migrating to the 

 farm crops. 

 I Do. harboured by hedge-row weeds, and thence 

 migrating to the crops. 

 Birds in general, according to the dictum of the Sparrow 

 Clubbists. 



1. The rabbit is one of the greatest pests to the 

 bank on which hedges are too often "Town, and there- 

 fore is injurious to the growing hedge, to say nothing 

 of the mischief which these creatures do to the crops. 

 The other day we visited a field in which a hedge- 

 bank had been undermined with no less than fifty 

 holes in the distance of five-and-twenty yards; 

 these ramified in every direction, not only through 

 the raised mound, but into the fields on either side 

 of the hedge, and out of which rabbits were dug 

 from a depth of as much as four feet. Here the 

 ridiculous nature of the mound was the primary 

 cause of the mischief, and hence we here offer 



