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exposure. In such a situation, and under such cir- 

 cumstances, it will not live long ; but upon a clay 

 soil, or loam, it will survive well, and have a very 

 ornamental appearance. 



The cost of planting a thorn hedge, including 

 a ditch four feet wide by two deep, where the 

 ground is of a wet nature, including plants from a 

 nurseryman, will average about one shilling and 

 eightpence per rood of six yards ; and where the 

 ground is dry and does not require a ditch, the 

 same work may probably be got done for one shil- 

 ling per rood. 



Second. — The most extensively used fence, in 

 the high inland districts of Scotland, is the Dry- 

 stone Dyke. From the nature of the country in 

 those high districts, stones are plentiful, and, of 

 course, easily attainable, from which circumstance 

 it is a fence much in use for all purposes. Stone 

 dykes have the effect of affording considerable shel- 

 ter to young plantations as soon as they are put 

 up for that purpose ; as also giving shelter to cattle 

 in the adjoining fields, which, of course, is not the 

 case with a young hedge fence. The dry-stone 

 dyke used to be built entirely without the addition 

 of any lime or mortar to bind it, and consequently it 

 was always apt to be broken down by cattle, or any 

 other strong pressure coming in contact with it; but 

 witliin ten years past, a great improvement has 

 been effected in the building of them, by having 



