( '99 ) 



need of from the ditch. Set the next fod bank- 

 wife, and another row of thorns, if two rows 

 be required 5 and continue the bank in the 

 fame manner until the work is completed : 

 this is not only the bed, but it is the cheapeft 

 method in the firft inftance; it is likewife the 

 lead expenfive to clean. 



Sheep and lambs are deftru6i:ive animals to 

 quick; but if by accident they get into the ditch, 

 they cannot fo eafily injure it as if it (lood ele- 

 vated on a bank between two. In fomie coun- 

 ties the common practice is to fet quick on a 

 narrow ridge or bank with a ditch on each fide, 

 by which means the beft earth lies at the bot- 

 tom, and the poor (lony foil at top. In fuch a 

 fituation it is wonderful to me that it grows at 

 all : it is indeed hardly poffible to take m.ore 

 cfFe6tual means of preventing the growth, un- 

 lefs they cut off the root. We mud all know 

 that the quick-thorn, like other plants, will ve- 

 getate beft in fuch foil as is moft congenial to 

 it ; and we know quick delights in a good fur- 

 face foil properly pulverifed and manured, and 

 that it is necedary it fhould be conftantly weed- 

 ed and cut down within an inch of the ground 



the 



