Di (lances, how clofe foever to the 

 Stem, would (bcfides their llout 

 Defence) prove a great Decoration 

 to large and ample Inclofures. 



In February or Ociober., with a 

 fharp Hand-bill, cut away all fuper- 

 fluous Sprays and Stragglers j then 

 fearch out the principal Stems, and 

 with a keen and light Hatchet cut 

 them flant-wife cloie to the Ground 

 hardly three-quarters through, or 

 rather {^y far only as till you can 

 make them comply handfomely, 

 left you rift the Stem j and fo lay it 

 from you iloping as you go, folding 

 in the leller Branches which fpring 

 from them j and ever within five 

 or lix Feet Diftance, where you 

 find an upright Set, (cutting off 

 only the Top to the Height of- your 

 intended Hedge) let it ftand as a 

 Stake, to fortify your Work, and 

 to receive the twining of thofe 

 Branches about it. 



Laftly, at the Top, (which Ihould 

 be about five Feet above Ground) 

 take the longeft, moft flender and 

 flexible Twigs which you referv'd, 

 and (being cut as the former, where 

 Need requires) bind in the Extre- 

 mities of all the reft j and thus your 

 Work is finifti'd. 



This being done very clofe and 

 thick, makes an impregnable Hedge 

 in few Years, for it may be re- 

 peated as you fee Occafion j and 

 what you fo cut away, will help 

 to make your dry Hedges for your 

 young Plantations, or will be uieful 

 for the Oven, and make good Bavins 

 efpecially the extravagant Side- 

 branches, which will fpring up- 

 right, till the newly-wounded are 

 healed. 



There are fome who would have 

 no Stakes cut from the Trees, fave 

 here and there one, fo as to leave 

 half the Head naked, and the other 

 ftanding, but the over -hanging 



Boughs will kill what is under ther« 

 and ruin the Tree, fo pernicious is 

 this Halt-topping. 



There is nothing more preju- 

 dicial to under - growing young 

 Trees than when newly trimmed 

 and pruned, to have their (as yet 

 raw) Wounds poifon'd with con- 

 tinual dripping. 



Thomas Franklin, Efq; has given 

 the following Account of his Me- 

 thod of planting ^^ick. 



He firft fet out the Ground for 

 Ditches and ^ick ten Feet in 

 Breadth j he liibdivided that, by 

 marking out two Feet and a half 

 on each Side (more or lefs at Plea- 

 fure,) for the Ditches, leaving five 

 in the Middle between them j then 

 ^'gg'"g up two Feet in the Midft 

 of that five Feet, he planted the 

 Sets in; which although it required 

 more Labour and Charge, he fays, 

 he foon found it repaid the Coft: 

 This done, he began to dig the 

 FolTes, and to fet up one Row of 

 Turfs on the Outlide of the faid 

 five Feet ; namely, one Row on 

 each Side thereof, the green Side 

 outmoft, a little reclining, fo as the 

 Grafs might grow. 



After this, returning to the Place 

 he began at, he ordered one of the 

 Men to dig a Spit of the under 

 Turf-mould, and lay it between the 

 Turfs placed edgewife as before 

 dcfcrib'd, upon the two Feet which 

 was purpofely dug in the Middle, 

 and prepar'd for the Sets, which 

 the Planter fets with two Quicks 

 upon thx: Surface of tfie Earth 

 almoft upright, whilft another 

 Workman laid the Mould forwards 

 about twelve Inches, and then fet 

 tv/o more, and {o rontinued. 



Thii being finifli'd, he order'd 



another Row of Turfs to be placed 



on each Side upon the Top of the 



former, and fiU'd the Vacancy 



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