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comprefs the matter which I have accumu- 

 lated within as narrow a compafs as may be. 

 The fub-divifions which the fubjecl in this 

 place requires are : 



1. The fpecies of hedgewood, 



2. The method of planting new hedges, 

 q. The method of defending them. 



4. The method of cleaning and training, 



5. Their after-management. 



6. The treatment of old hedp-es. 



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I. The prevailing hedgewood is ijohite-' 

 thorn. Formerly it was in this, as in other 

 places, gathered in the woods and roqgh 

 grounds. But at prefcnt, and for fome years 

 pad, *^ garden (juickwood" has been pretty 

 generally, though not yet univerfally planted. 



But although the vvhite-thora is the com-» 

 xuon hedgewood of the Diftrict, and, in or- 

 dinary fituations, may be the moft eligible, 

 I have feen crah-tree ufed in cold foils, as well 

 fis in bleak fituations, with great fuccefs. la 

 an infraace where crab-tree and white-thor^ 

 T/cve planted alternately, by way of expcri- 

 ■\^^x\t^ the crab -tree plants have outgrown 



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