16 FEKCES* [Jan, 



regularly within eight or ten inches of one ano- 

 ther, and where it is necefiary to retain a fence, 

 and at the fame time to cut, fo as to have a fup- 

 ply of young moots from the bottom, the plan 

 to be followed j is to cut alternately the one part 

 to within eight or ten inches of the bottom, and 

 the other at four feet high ; drefling the bank, 

 and fcouring the ditch, as directed above. 



In cafes where two rows of quicks have been 

 planted, the front one is to be cut by the furface, 

 and the other at four or five feet high, as circum- 

 flances may require* 



In doling this article upon cutting fences, we 

 would entreat proprietors and others to guard, 

 with great caution and care, againfl the ordinary 

 method of hafhing them downwards with the bill, 

 fo as to fplit the flock : the cut ought always to 

 be made upwards in a flanting direction, and fo as 

 to leave the flock quite whole and fmooth at the 

 place where the wound is made. Indt ed, in every 

 cafe where a wound is neceflarily to be inflicted 

 on a living tree, it ought to be made as fmooth 

 and clean as poffible, that the effort of the plant 

 to reflore the wounded part to a found flats be 

 .not counteracted. 



ON SUNK FENCES. 



A Sunk Fence is formed by an excavation of 

 , in a trisupgular form? to fuel} a depth as 



exifting 



