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afford fhade and Ihelter for cattle ; and 

 to prevent their lying too much under 

 the hedges, in hot weather, which da- 

 mages the fences, and tempts them to 

 break out. Befides, cattle are more trou- 

 bled with flies under a clofe hedge, and 

 have lefs benefit of the air than in an 

 open grove. If the piece be very large, 

 two or three clumps will be ufeful. 



Hedge- rov/ timber generally grows to 

 the greateft fize ; is of the beft and foun- 

 ded quality -, and mofb calculated for 

 the ufe of the navy. E/m is there to be 

 preferred, becaufe it grows ered:, and 

 does leaft damage to the land by its 

 under-branches, and next to that oak ; 

 becaufe it draws its principal nourifh- 

 ment from a tap-root, and .therefore does 

 not exhaufl the furface of the ground, 

 like aih, and fome other trees, nor in- 

 terrupt the plough by horizontal roots. 



Some 



