2i FENCES. [Jan< 



flumps about a foot long. The pods are to be 

 driven into the face of the bank, a few inches a- 

 bove the plants, and in an inclining pofition, fo 

 as to form an angle of about 60 with the horizon. 

 Two rails of the above defcriptjon are to be nail- 

 ed on ; one a foot above the plants, and the other 

 eighteen inches or two feet above that. A barrier 

 will thus be formed, that few pafturing animals 

 will attempt to pafs. 



PLASHING AND CUTTING OLD HEDGES. 



Hedges which have been long neglected, moot 

 np to a great height like trees, become naked at 

 bottom, and occupy too much ground, at lead for 

 lands in a date of high cultivation. The beft 

 method of reducing fuch to a proper fize, and of 

 forming them into an immediate fence, is by Plash" 

 ing. This confids in fele&ing the dronged and 

 flraighteft fhoots. Thefe are to be drefled up and 

 headed down to four feet, and in fuch a way that 

 the tops of the whole may range in a neat line. 

 Thefe are called the stakes ; and, when they are 

 deficient, either in drength or number, recourfe 

 mud be had to artificial flakes, which mud be 

 driven in to dand firm, and fupply the deficiency 

 of natural ones. Having proceeded thus far in 

 preparing the hedge for plafhing, the hedger is to 

 begin at one end, and bend down as dole as pof- 



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