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headed at fuch heights as circumftances re- 

 quired ; the long flender boughs, growing 

 in the line of the fence, were trained into the 

 vacancies, with ftrong flakes, in the espalier 

 MANNER : a bank of earth having been pre- 

 vioufly thrown up, and the lowcfl ground - 

 "boughs LAYERED in it, ID ordcr to ftrike 

 root, and fend up frefh plants, to afllft in fill- 

 ing up the vacancies cfFedtually. 



This mode of treatment is not applicable 

 to fuch hedges only ; but to every live 

 hedoc in which wide vacancies are found. 

 The beft time for filling them up in this 

 manner is when the hedge is felled p the 

 ground. 



Another inflance of pracftice in the ma- 

 nagement of old hedges, which had been 

 planted on broad banks, with ditihcs on 

 either fide ', and which, through the narrow- 

 ncfs of the pallure, and the neglecl of timely 

 cutting, wc^e become ftunted, and thin of 

 ftcms, merits notice. 



The thorns, in this cafe, were felled to the 

 ground ; the ditch, to the fouthward or weft- 

 ward of the hedge, re-made ; and that on the 



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