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cf whole ground is left between the inner 

 brink and the iiril-turned fed. 



One deviation, however, from this general 

 mode of planting under the Inciofare Bill 

 occurs. In this inft.ince, a narrow trench 

 only is dug againft the boundary line ; leav- 

 ing fufficient room between the inner brink 

 of the trench and the line of quick to place 

 the dead fence ; by which means the owner 

 of the land, getting his young hedges within 

 his own prcmifcs, is no way liable to the ill- 

 nature or negligence of his neighbour. And, 

 inftead of laying in the plants behind the 

 firft-turned fod, the ground is dug four or 

 nve feet wide, and the plants let in a trench 

 upright in the nurfery manner, having, in 

 this cafe, a line of prepared eaiih on either 

 fide to feed among. 



Nor is this the only inftance ! have met 

 with In the Diftridt of planting hedge- 

 wood ON A LEVEL. The famc judicious 

 planter has, in dividing upland inclolurc:-^., 

 planted hedges without any ditch wlv.'.tevcr. 

 I-iis pra(flice has been to plow a Hip of ground, 



on each fide of the intended line of the fence, 



the 



