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abundantly in the Norfolk foil ; fome few bar- 

 ren fpots excepted; in which fituatlons furze 

 is the principal fence. Crab tree is fometimes, 

 though leldom, planted; but I have feen it 

 make a raj)id progrefs upon very poor foil ; and 

 for fuch it would, I apprehend, be found pre- 

 ferable to the hawthorn. Holly abounds in old 

 hedges ; growing very luxuriantly, and form- 

 ing an admirable fhelter for cattle in winter j 

 befides giving, in that bleak feafon, a chearful- 

 nefs and fancied (belter to the face of the coun^ 

 try. 



IX. Upon fome eflates it is the pra(ftice to put 

 in, when a new hedge is planted, a holly at every 

 rod, and an OAK-PLANT at every two or three 

 rods, among the white-thorn layer. 



This is an excellent pradlice; provided the 

 young oaks be trained to a proper height be- 

 fore they be fuffered to form their heads. For^ 

 in this cafe, they will become a valuable fource 

 of timber, without injuring, in any material de- 

 gree, the inclofures they grow between. It is 

 the roots of the afh and elm, and the tops of low 

 pollards, and tall over-grown hedge-woods, 

 which are injurious to the farmer, A timber- 

 oak, of fifteen to twenty feet item, does very 



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