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namenting it. If I had land to inclofe, where I 

 intended to plough continually, I would fet 

 the fences with the filberd or with the comnnon 

 wood-nut, which would produce a profitable 

 crop of nuts. 



In quick-fetting the diftance muft be regula- 

 ted by fituation. If upon ploughed 'land, one 

 in a foot is fufficient, if you could infure the 

 growing of thenn all ; but at fix inches apart is 

 the fafer way, and this is my conftant praftice. 

 As toplaihing of hedges, Hertfordlhire has 

 generally been efteemed the county of all the 

 kingdom where this work is befl underftood, 

 and where it is performed in the neateft man- 

 ner. But in that county it is ufual for gentle- 

 men to have a covenant inferted in the leafes 

 they grant, to reilridt the farmers from cutting 

 and plafhing the hedges more than once in the 

 fpace of ten years. The bed method of plafh- 

 ing, in my opinion, is, to cut them much ear- 

 lier, as, when young, the branches fhoot more 

 vigoroufly, and a young thorn cut off will 

 grow with more luxuriance than from the firft 

 planting. You will do well to afTift the fhoot 

 by adding a little frefh earth to the bottom of 

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