114 HEDGES. f4. 



little if any injury either to the crop, or the 

 hedge growing under it. 



But if, on the contrary, the oaklings, thus 

 planted, be fufFcred to rife with more than on© 

 item, as ftubwood ; or, rifing fingly (which is 

 •feldom the cafe in a young hedge), they be 

 permitted to form their heads at eight or ten 

 feet high, with flat wide-fpreading tops, — they 

 lofe their intended value, and become nui- 

 fances, not only to the adjoining inclofures, 

 but to the hedge in which they grow. — Eli- 

 gible, therefore, as it is to plant young oaks 

 among hedgewood, the advantage to be ob- 

 tained from it refls wholly on the after-ma- 

 nagement. 



For reafons why a tenant ihould not be fuf- 

 itrtd. to prwie timber-trees, fee Mi 3^. 5. 



For refledlonson the time of cutting hedges, 



fee MiN. 34. 



For a propofed method of preventing-^nants 

 from deftroying hedges^ fee Min. 42. 



For obfervations on ditches againji the fides of 

 hills, fee Min. 45. 



For obfervations on ivied ditch-hanks, fee. 



Min. 63. 



For 



