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none of the seed took root, and at the time 

 the young plants should have made their 

 appearance, nothing was visible but weeds. 

 This however was not very wonderful, as it 

 turned out, for either in a mischievous frolic, 

 or with malice prepense to fox-hunting, 

 some one had dried, or rather baked, the 

 whole of the seed in an oven, previous to 

 its having been committed to the ground. 



It should invariably be remembered, that 

 for months after the first tender shoots of the 

 gorse have made their appearance above 

 ground, you must employ hands to weed it 

 as attentively as if the whole were a garden 

 bed containing so many choice flowers, the 

 hopes of the Florist ; for I am clearly of opi- 

 nion, it is the neglect of early weeding which 

 ruins more than one half of the gorses that 

 are made. There is, I am told, a new method 

 of making a covert sufficiently thick to ensure 

 its holding foxes, or as the term is, to be full 

 of " good lyeing," in an almost incredible 



