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in any country where the foil is free from 

 ftones, and other obflruflions of the fpade. 



The hedgling is defeaded on one fide by a 

 deep ditch, while the other Mq is fufficiently 

 guarded by the excavated mould formed into 

 a mound, and crefted with a ilout brufli- 

 bedge-, in the fetting of which the Norfolk La- 

 bourers, from conftant pradlice, are very profi- 

 cient. 



It is a ftriking, and indeed an interefting 

 fad:, that hedges in Norfolk arc raifed with 

 good fuccefs, although neither poft, rail, flake 

 or eddcr be made ufe of in defending them. 

 - — And it tiiay be a moot point, whether a 

 want of underwood has given rife to this, as a 

 pradtice of necefilty ; or whether the prad:ice, 

 by rendering coppices lefs valuable, has been 

 a means of doing away, fo completely, the 

 woodinefs of this Difiricfl. 

 - But notwithftanding much praife is due to 

 the Norfolk method of defending young 

 hedges, the mode of planting, here in com- 

 mon ufe, is very reprehenfible. Inftead of the, 

 quickfets—provincially," layer"— being planted 

 in or near the foil which is to fupport it, they 

 are laid in near the top of the bank— perhaps, 

 H 4 two 



