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At prefent, it is a pra£tlcCj though perhaps 

 not of long {landing, to fow furze-feed upon 

 the top of the bank, as a guard fuccefEve to 

 the brufh-hedge, and as a fourcc of kid and 

 fuel. The common way is to fow it upon the 

 back, at the foot of the dead hedge : this, how- 

 ever, is injudicious ; for the furze being of a 

 fpreading nature it is liable, after the hedge is 

 gone to decay, to over-run the quick. Many 

 line young hedges I have feen materially 

 harmed through an injudicious management of 

 the furze-hedge j which ought to ftand on the 

 hnckf not upon the top^ of the bank ; as in 

 this fituation it is a better guard to the bank 

 (which is liable to be feraped down by cattle and 

 fiieep), and lefs injurious to the hedge it is in- 

 tended to defend. About two-thirds of the 

 diftance between the foot of the bank and the 

 foot of the brufh-hedge -, namely, one- third of 

 that fpace from the foot of the hedge ; is a good 

 iituatk>n. But fee Min. 104, on this fub- 



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I met with one inflance, and that in the 

 pradice of one of the firft men in the county, 

 of fu^ze-fecd being fown on what is called the 



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