tet HEDGES. 14. 



the plants are young, be kept ftuck with bufhes, 

 to prevent the res from running along it. 



^be^zeof the ditch is from three to five feet 

 wide — and two to three and half feet deep ; the 

 medium, four feet wide and three feet deep, 

 with a bank three feet high, forming what is 

 called •* a fix-foot dick." For an out-fide fence 

 aoainft a common or a road, five feet wide and 

 feven feet high, (meafuring from the bottom of 

 the ditch to the top of the bank when frefh- 

 made) is a more fuitable fence. 



The price of a common fix-foot ditch is four- 

 teen-pence a rod (of feven yards), or one fhil- 

 ling a rod and beer, for making the ditch, 

 planting the layer, adjufting the bank, and fet- 

 ting the hedge. 



the mean dijlance of planting quick is about 

 fix inches : the calculation is a hundred to three 

 rods ; the price four-pence to fix-pence a hun- 

 dred. 



Thus, the whole expense of planting a quick- 

 hedge in Norfolk is not two-pence half-penny 

 ^ yard ; while in many parts of the kingdom, 

 where two rows of pofts and rails are in com- 

 mon ufe, eight-pence to one Shilling a yard is 

 the ufual expenditure. 



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