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LAYING 

 PAN-TILES. 



a coat of plaftering ; which, with the fpars, 

 <kc. being whitc-wafhed, gives a neat appear- 

 ance at a very trifling expence ; and keeps the 

 room as free from dufl as if it were lathed and 

 ceiled. 



This is not a common practice ; but it is a 

 very good one , and is much cheaper than the 

 ordinary practice of " interlathing'' with plaf- 

 tering laths. 



HEDGES. NOVEMBER 19. It is not the earlicft-done 



hedging which makes the ftrongeft moots from 

 the flubs. A piece of hedging was done on the 

 lands late Mr. -- 's in the month of April. 

 The face of the ditch ftands remarkably 

 well ; and the fhoots of white-thorn, cut down 

 clofe to the face, are uncommonly numerous, 

 and large ; fome of them being near five feet 

 high. 



Perhaps there is an advantage in cutting 

 thorns at that time of the year. When they 

 have been cut off in winter, the fpring air has 

 no furface to act upon ; except the flump, 

 which barely fhews its- head above ground : 

 whereas thofe which fland till the fap begins 

 to iHr, have, by their quantity of iurface, roufed 



the 



