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fubje6l may be fully difcuiTed and under- 

 flood. The mixed hedges — thofe of thorns, 

 fallow, alb, hazel, beech, &c. yield in 

 general, exclufive of the hedge, firing 

 enough to fupport the farmer's family; 

 which is undoubtedly an objedt of greater 

 importance, than has been thought of by 

 the many writers who argue fo warmly 

 in favour of white thorn alone. But the 

 point muft, after all, depend on collateral 

 circumftances, to be judged of by the im- 

 prover. In cafe it is determined to make 

 the new hedges all of white thorn j the 

 following is the proper method of making 

 them. 



All the earth which rifes out of the ditch 

 to be formed into the bank, and the rows 

 of quick to be planted on the top of it. 

 Behind the bank, at the diftance of i8 

 inches or 2 feet from the quick, let the 

 dead hedge be madej ail the flakes to be 

 fallow; mofl of them will grow, which is 

 the fecurity of the dead hedge Handing a 

 proper time — '■ — if dead (lakes are nfed, it 

 will be a monthly rent charge. As the 

 quick muH: be cut at 3 years growth, and 

 after that be defended by a hedge till cut a 

 fccond time for plafhing, which mufl not 



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