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2. Planting. The common methcd is 

 to turn a fed, ten or more inches wide, upon 

 the brink of the intended ditch, and, behind 

 this, to fet the plants m a leaning pofcure; 

 covering the roots with Ibme of the belt of 

 the mould the ditch affords ; and, behind the 

 plants, to lay the remainder of the excivated 

 earth, in a low broad bank. 



The ordinary difcb is very fmall •, barely 

 affording mould to back up the plants with. 

 Neither the ditch in fiont nor the bank be- 

 hind are confidcrcd, r,s they are in Norfolk, 

 a guard to the young hedge. 



The Fickcring Inclosure Bill orders, 

 that the ditches in the lower grounds^ when 

 they are neccflluy as drains, fhall be made 

 four feet wide, and two and a-half feet deep. 

 But for the upuindi no limits are prcfcribed • 

 i|-je alliance between the outer brink of the 

 ditch and the line of hedge-wood being the 

 fenly thing limited. This width is nxed, 

 throughout, at four feet and a half. In this 

 cafe, the outer brink of the ditch being the 

 bpuivdary line of (.ach man's property, a flip 



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