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perpendicularly down, if it can be done with 

 fafety to the fets, along the fide of the line, to 

 within three or four inches of the top. The dif- 

 tances at which thefe fhould (land, to form good 

 thick hedges, is, for the Elder, nine inches ; for 

 the Poplar, nine inches ; and for the Willow, fix 

 inches : The cuttings, which are to be planted 

 on the furface, as above,, muft be made (harp in 

 the thick end to be pufhed into the ground, that 

 they may be phnted with the greater eafe. If, 

 however, any of the three forts are to be plant- 

 ed after ditching, the cuttings will require no pre- 

 paration of the kind ; but are to be .laid as if they 

 were thorn plants. 



Some writers recommend the thrufling in of 

 all cuttings of the forts above mentioned.- But 

 this is often attended with danger to the cuttings ; 

 the bark being fometimes pufhed off by the hardnefs 

 of the land. If there is the lead danger of this, 

 we would advife to ufe the iron-mod dibble, and 

 put in the cuttings in the manner of ordinary 

 planting. 



The cuttings of all the above -forts, for the 

 prefent purpofe, ought to be fuch as are taken 

 from firm laft year's flioots, and of fifteen inches 

 in length. Care muft be had not to ufe the fmall 

 foft part of the flioots of any of the kinds ; be- 

 caufe fuch always produce weak bufhes, which 

 oifght caufe gaps in the fences. 



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