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befidcs the necefiary alleys round the fences, and 

 between the quarters, in order that manure may 

 be the more readily carried in, and the crops car- 

 ried out. This road or walk may be grafs ; but, 

 if metalled and gravelled, it would give lefs trou- 

 ble in keeping. 



We have obferved that the ground fhould be 

 fenced in fuch a manner, as to exclude hares and 

 rabbits. With this view, a wall appears to be 

 the mod "immediate and effectual fen.ce. A fmall 

 funk fence, with a hawthorn hedge at top, may 

 anfwer very well, and may be found advantageous 

 in cafes where much draining is requifite. If a 

 hawthorn hedge be planted on the plain furface, 

 it will require to be clofe paled, and to be kept 

 fo for feveral years, and, of courfe, would be very 

 expenfive. Few growing hedges will exclude 

 rabbits, unlefs guarded at bottom by pales, or by 

 a footing wall. The gates of the nurfery fliould 

 be clofe, at lead at the bottom part, and fhould 

 be fubftantially hung. 



OF DIGGING AND TRENCHING VACANT GROUND, 



&C. 



In an eftablifhed Nurfery, whether fimply fo, 

 or occupied partly as a kitchen garden, there ne- 

 ceffarily will, by this time of the feafon, be many 

 fpots cleared from the crops of laft year. If thefe 

 have not yet been, trenched, digged, or ridged up, 



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