14; NORFOLK. xot 



There are, however, m?iny plan ted l^edges; 

 fome of them very old : of thefe, a two-fold 

 treatment prevails : namely, that above-de- 

 fcribed; and another, lefs eligible, called 

 *' buckftalling ;" which is cutting off the hedge- 

 wood about two feet above the top of the 

 bank, and " out-hoiling/' that is, fcouring out 

 the ditch for manure ; without returning any 

 part of the foil to the roots of the hedge-wood. 

 But by a repetition of thefe bad pradices, the 

 bedges, fituated as they are in Norfolk, near 

 the top of an artificial bank, with a deep ditch 

 beneath them, are at length left deftitute of 

 mould to nourifli and fupport them, dwindling 

 away. Hub after flub, until they arje no longer 

 adequate as fences. 



The practice of phjhing, or laying hedges, 

 is, in a great degree, unknown in this Diftrid', 

 I— Workmen, from countries where this is a 

 favourite and common pracflice, have been em- 

 ployed by gentlemen in this Dillrid: ; but the 

 fuccefs has been fuch as has rendered thofc to 

 whom it has become known, inveterate en^e- 

 mies to the prad:ice. 



The unpardonable cuftom of hacking off 



th& fide-boughs of tall hedges, leaving the 



H 3 tops 



