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But it may sometimes happen that a snow storm 

 will level a pathway over the very top of your de- 

 fence, and yet leave your trees in some places 

 uncovered, and exposed to the enemy. A quantity 

 of soot, with twice as much cow^s dung, reduced 

 with water to the consistence of paint, and laid on 

 with a soft brush, will prevent the hares from 

 touching the bark, and serve for the whole season, 

 without causing any injury to the tree. In too 

 great proportion the soot is unsafe; and care should 

 be taken not to hurt the flower buds; but withall, 

 the remedy is by no means tedious in its applica- 

 tion, and is perfectly efficacious in preventing a 

 devastation which many years will not repair. All 

 these little matters, I am aware, will be judged 

 worthy of notice by every one who has experienced 

 the peculiar provocation of the various garden ene- 

 mies their assaults being of a kind too trivial for 

 the exercise of resignation, and yet, by frustrating 

 the hope of your labour, making all your plans and 

 expences mere foolishness. 



But whilst the above methods may apply to all 

 ordinary situations, there are others in which they 

 could not be adopted with any degree of propriety. 

 In very high and exposed places, where the soil 

 and atmosphere are such as to stint all vegetable 

 growth, the planting of hedges for such nicety of 

 defence is out of the question, and the erecting of 

 paling still more. Look around you before you 

 lay your plans. Is your height above the level of 

 the sea 800 or 1000 feet, does the plough turn 



