between the Sets and Turfs as high 

 zs their Tops, always leaving the 

 l^iddle, where the Sets were planted, 

 hollow, and fomewhat lower than 

 the Sides ot the Banks by eight or 

 ten Inches, that the Rain might 

 delcend to their Roots j which is 

 of great Advantage to their Growth, 

 and by far better than by the old 

 Ways, where the Banks are too 

 much Hoping, and the Roots otthe 

 Set ^re feldom wetted even in a 

 xnoift Seafon the Summer follov/- 

 ing: But if it prove dry, many of 

 the Sets, efpecially the late planted, 

 will pcriih i and even few of thofe 

 that had been planted in the latter 

 End of April, (the Summer happen- 

 ing to be Ibmewhat dry ) eicap'd. 



The Planting being thus advanc'd, 

 the next Care is Fencing i byfetting 

 a Hedge of about twenty Inches 

 high upon the Top of the Bank on 

 each Side thereof, lean.n- a little 

 outwards from the Sets, which 

 will protect them as well (if not 

 bttterj than a Hedge of three Feet, 

 ftanding on the Surface of the 

 Ground, fo as no Cattle can ap- 

 proach the deaJ Head to prejudice 

 it, unlefs they fet their Feet m the 

 Ditch it felf, which will be at leaft 

 a Foot deep ■■, and from the Bottom 

 of the Fois to the Top of the Hedge, 

 about four Feet and a haU, which 

 they can hardly reach over to crop 

 the ^Aiiciiy as they might in the 

 old Way ; and beiides, fuch an Hedge 

 will endure a Year longer. 



He fays, he had an Hedge whi-h 

 had flood hve Years. And tho' 

 nine or ten Feet were fuihcient Qr 

 Wth Ditcher and Banks, yet where 

 the Ground is but indiifcrent, it is 

 fetter Husbandry to take twelve 

 Feet, which will allow of a Bank 

 jit leaft lix Feet broad, and gives 

 jtnore Scope to pliiCC the dead Hedges 

 ferther torn, the Sets, and the 



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Ditches being fhallpw, will, in two 

 Years time, graze. 



As to the ObjecSlion, that taking 

 twelve Feet waftes too much 

 Ground, he affirms. That if twelvq 

 Feet in Breadth be taken for a Ditch 

 and Bank, there will no more 

 Ground be wafted than by the 

 common Wayj for in that a '2)uic^ 

 is rarely fet but there is ninereet 

 between the dead Hedges, which 

 is intirely loft all the Time of 

 fencing ; whereas \vith double 

 Ditches there remain at leaft eigh*- 

 teen Inches on each S'de where the 

 Turfs were fet on edge, that bear 

 more Gi afs than when it lay on the 

 flat. 



But admitting it flid totally lay 

 wafte three Feet ot Ground, the 

 Pamage were ycry inconliderable, 

 fince forty Perch in Length, two 

 hundred and twenty Yards, which 

 makes Perches 7, xy^^ 9^ or 7 

 Pole^i whicli, at j^s. and 4^. 

 the Acre, amounts not to y d ^ 

 ^er Annum. 



Now, that this is not only the 

 be ft but cheapeft Way of ^uick' 

 feiting, will appear by comparing 

 the Charge ot both. 



In the ufual Way, the Charge of 

 a three Foot D tch is four Pence 

 per Poie, the Owner providing Setsi 

 if the Workmrm finds them, he 

 will have for making the faid Ditch, 

 and fetting them, eight Pence per 

 Pole, and for Hedging* two Pence, 

 that is, for both Sides four Pence 

 the pole ; which renders the Charge 

 of Hedging, Ditching^ and Sets, 

 tvvclve Pfoce the Pple, that is, for 

 forty Rod in Length, forty Shil- 

 lings. 



Then one Load of Wgod out of 

 the Cople cofts (with Carriage, tho* 

 bpt two or three Miles Diftance) 

 ten Shillings, which vyill leldom 

 hedge above eight Pole ('hngle 



Hedge)> 



