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be in lefs than eight or nine years, thd 

 dead hedge muft be kept good for eleven 

 or twelve years. With dead hedge flakes 

 it would in that time require making at 

 leafl: fix times, and be an enormous ex- 

 pence ; but by the ufe of fallows, the firft 

 hedge will ftand good 4 years, perhaps 5 : 

 then let it be pulled up, the old hedge 

 Hakes plaPned down among the new bufhes, 

 and new fallow flakes driven in: but the 

 plafiies mufl all be laid from the quick, 

 that the latter may be neither fhaded nor 

 damaged. This fecond hedge will remain 

 the refl of the term ; then the quick I 

 fuppofe ready for plafhing : let the ditch 

 be cleanfed, the bank repaired, and all the 

 fallows of the dead hedge grubbed up and 

 removed ; the new hedge is to be totally 

 (except the edders) made out of the live 

 quick : let enough of the flems be cut off, 

 about 2 feet fix inches from the ground, 

 and trimmed up for hedge flakes, and let 

 all the rcil of it be piaflied down between 

 thofe flakes, ,and the edders twifled in as 

 ufual. From that time the fence is im- 

 penetrable. Thus you obferve, I make 



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