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than Norfolk ; and what is fingularly to tlw 

 credit of the Norfolk hufbandmen, their per- 

 severance in pradifmg the method of planting 

 hedges above defcrlbad, may perhaps be called 

 ihtir only rooted prejudice. 



The rcafon why quick, recently planted, at 

 the foot, and in the face, of a tall bank, is 

 checked in its growth, for the firfl two or three 

 years, is not more obvious than the method of 

 preventing it. If inftead gf laying-in the plants 

 in the immediate face of an unbroken bank, 

 they were to be planted on the back-part of 

 an offset^ or break in the bank, the evil effetfls 

 abovementioned would be removed : for, bv 

 this fjmple alteration in the formation of the 

 bank, the young plants become fupplied, at 

 once, with every thing neceffary to their fup- 

 port ; namely, moifture, air, and loofe earth 

 for the infant roots to flrike in. 



This is not merely a theoretic plan : it is in 

 common pradtice in many parts of the king- 

 dom. ; and I have myfelf pradlifed it, in three 

 different and diftant parts of it, with fuccefs. 



In Norfolk however, where hares are ver- 

 rain, fome caution is neceffary : the Ihelf 

 fhpuld not be made too wide ; and Ihould, while 



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