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ditch is finished. Spread the roots to advantage, and 

 cover them well with the mouldy earth that dropped 

 from the surface sod: this is necessary in order to give 

 their roots the advantage of the best soil, and should on 

 no account be neglected. Then proceed to finish your 

 ditch and bank, laying the remainder of your surface 

 sods in front of the bank, as you had done with the first 

 row, giving it exactly a similar slope to that of the ditch, 

 and the whole bank such a form, as if it was taken up 

 at once out of the ditch, and turned upside down. The 

 scarcement left in front, throws the bank so far back, 

 as not to bear heavily on the side of the ditch to press it 

 down, and it also will receive and retain a considerable 

 portion of the rain that slides down along the surface of 

 the bank, by which means the earth in front will be kept 

 in a more moist state than if no such thing was left. 



Were you to lay in two rows of quicks in the front, 

 the second eight or nine inches above the first, and the 

 plants in each row nine or ten inches distant, placing 

 those of the upper opposite the intervals of the lower, 

 it would be the most effectual method of making a bet- 

 ter and more immediate fence. A very slight paling 

 on the top of the bank, that will defend the quicks for 

 three years, will be sufficient, and if the land in front is 

 not in cultivation, but under stock, a similar fence may 

 be necessary to prevent their going into the dilch, and 

 reaching the plants. But if you take particular care 

 to keep them constantly weeded for the first two years, 

 which is absolutely necessary, or all is lost labour, they 

 will have the less inducement to approach them. 



Preparation of Hawthorn Seed for the raising of Thorn 

 Quicks. — When you collect the seed in autumn, mix 

 them with equal quantities of light sandy earth, and 

 lay them in that state in a narrow sloping ridge, taper- 

 ing at the top, in a dry part of your garden, where they 

 will not be disturbed by hogs; cover them with about 

 two inches of light loose earth; in April following turn 

 them over, covering them as before; repeat this process 

 in July and August, by which the seed will be prepared 

 for vegetation. A trench must then be cut around this 

 ridge, to prevent any water from lodging around the seed. 



