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In the lower parts of the Vale, where (lones 

 are nottoonumerous/and where deep ditches 

 are requifite, the Norfolk method might be 

 introduced with great propriety "*. 



But, in floney foils, that method is imprac- 

 ticable : and there, two rows of poib and 

 rails, or fome other dead fence adequate to 

 them, are, in mofl cafes, abfoiutely neccfTury 

 to good management. 



It is therefore wife in the framers of In- 

 clofure Bills to fecure the right of placing 

 fences during a certain number of years, up- 

 on neighbouring allotments, as guards to the 

 young hedges -|-. 



I have obferved, in more inflances than 

 one, the good effcdts of fetting a fharp ridg- 

 let of earth on the outer brink of the ditch, as 

 a guard to the face of young hedge plants ; 

 efpecially againft horfes. In one inftance, a 

 younor hedge was defended by two fmall 



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ditches, one on either fide, with banklets of 

 this kind, without any dead fence whatever; 

 and this, too, againft well-bred hunters . 

 fuch as would in a chace have taken the 



<i See tvojiF. EcoN. Vol. I. p. 102. 

 t See Art. Inclosures. 



Vol. I. P hcdgling 



