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luxuriant fide flioots, and thereby promoting 

 the upward growth of the hedgling, it is 

 very deficient. 



I have, neverthelefs, had frequent oppor- 

 tunities of obferving one inftance in which 

 this requifite bufinefs in the raifing of hedges 

 has been executed in, perhaps, a fingular 

 manner. In this inftance each plant is train- 

 ed with a fingle ftciUj pi'uned in the nurfcry 

 manner. 



One advantage of this method is that of 

 rearing every plant with a degree of certain- 

 ty •, the tops being in this operation attend- 

 ed to as well as the ftems : thofe of the 

 ftrongcr plants being IcfTencd, to give head- 

 room to the weaker. 



Another very great advantage, efpecially 

 on a flieep-farin, is that of getting the young 

 plants out of harm's way. Sheep are danger- 

 ous enemies to young hedges ; and every 

 expedient to guard againft their mifchiev- 

 oufnefs in this refped: deferves at leaft a trial. 

 Strong plants, judicioufly planted, and train- 

 ed in this manner, may, with a degree of cer- 

 tainty, be got out of the reach of fhcep in 

 three or four years. 



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