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with the quick, into the bottom of the ditch. 

 Even the ordinary mouldering of the bank, by 

 frofts and moderate rains, leaves, in the courfc 

 of a few years, the roots entirely expofed. 

 Should the plants preferve their upright pofture, 

 they foon Icfe their vigour ; but it is no uncom^ 

 mon thing to fee them hanging, perhaps by one 

 fibre, with their heads downward as;ain{tthe face 

 of the bank. Confequently, hedges which have 

 been planted in this manner are full of dead 

 gaps J and the plants which have furvived and 

 have got down to the natural foil are, by the 

 crowns of their roots being conftantly expofed. 

 Hinted and unhealthy. Whoever will be at the 

 trouble of making the obfervation, will find, 

 that the full-ftemmed luxuriant hedges, which 

 occur, more or lefs, in every part of theDiftricft, 

 (the Norfolk foil being naturally affecfted by the 

 hawthorn) but more particularly in the Fleg 

 Hundreds, have been planted at or near the 

 foot of the bank. 



The reafon why a hedge planted low in ths 

 facioi the bank, does not fiourilh for a few years 

 after planting is obvious : the bank being fleep, 

 and without a break from top to bottom, it 

 {boots off the rain-water, which falls afrainft it, 



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