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the February, following your planting it, if you 

 mean k to thrive. But, becaufe the weeding 

 and taking care of the plants when young is 

 attended with trouble and expence in the out- 

 fet, fome content themfelves in general with 

 finnply planting the quick, and leaving it the 

 chance of thriving in bad company, without con- 

 fidering that the old adage of ^' the firft cod be- 

 ing bed," can never be better applied than in this 

 inflance; for the quick being properly nurtur- 

 ed and trained in infancy, will at a maturer age 

 arrive at a perfe6l handfome hedge, and not 

 only ferve the purpofe of a good fence, but, 

 well managed, may pay the farmer for the trou- 

 ble beftowed upon it. 



I fee no reafon why a hedge fhould not pay 

 intereft for money laid our, as well as any other 

 part of a farm. Suppofe for inftancc, in val- 

 leys or fuch fituations v/here tne land is good, 

 plum-trees, apples, cherries or other fruits of 

 the choiceil forts, were planted at intervals, in- 

 flead of fuffe-ring the wild and almoft ufelefs 

 fort to grow ; the expence would be trifling at 

 firfl:, the fences foon become a very valuable 

 pare of the farm, and add not a little to the or- 

 namenting 



