HEDGEROW TREES AND HEDGES 245 
nable Hedge of one hundred and sixty foot in length, 
seven foot high, and jive in diameter, which I can 
shew in my poor Gardens at any time of the year, 
glitt’ring with its arm’d and vernish’d Jeaves ? 
the taller Standards at orderly distances blushing 
with their natural Cora//: It mocks at the rudest 
assaults of the Weather, Beasts, or Hedge-breaker. 
.. . Et illum nemo impune lacessit. 
‘True it is, that “me must bring this tree to 
perfection; it does so to all things else, e¢ 
posteritate pangimus. But what if a little culture 
about the Roots (not dunging which it abhorres) 
and frequent stirring of the mould doubles its 
growth? We stay even years for a tolerable 
Quick, it is worth staying it ¢hrice for this, which 
has no Competitor.’ 
Of all kinds of trees or shrubs, however, the 
Hawthorn, May, or Quick (Crategus Oxyacantha) 
makes the best live hedge for fields. Taken for 
all in all, no other plant is so suitable. Growing 
easily in a great variety of soils, it exhibits a 
considerable degree of density, and can, if well 
maintained, resist pressure; while its thorny 
branches keep cattle and sheep from trying to 
force their way through it. Limy and marly 
