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and here they remain, always about as moist as 

 common earth, until sixteen months after ihey are 

 put in ; that is to say, through a winter, a summer^ 

 and another winter ; and then they are sown (in 

 America) as soon as the frost is clean out of the 

 ground. They ought to be sown in little drills ; 

 the drills a foot a part, and the haws about as thick 

 as peas in the drills. Here they come up ; and? 

 when they have stood 'till the next year, you pro- 

 ceed with them in the manner pointed out in para- 

 graph 40. 



56. These haws may be had from Liverpool^ from 

 London, or from almost any port in Great Britain 

 or Ireland. But, they can be had only in the months 

 of November and December. Seldom in the latter ; 

 for, the birds eat them at a very early period. They 

 are ripe early in November ; and, half haws half 

 sand, may be had, I dare say, for two dollars a bar- 

 rel, at any place. Three barrels would fence a 

 farm ! And, as America owes to Europe her Wheat, 

 why be ashamed to add fences to the debt ? But 

 (and with this I conclude,) if there be a resolution 

 formed to throw all lands to common, rather than 

 take the trifling trouble to make live fences, I do 

 hope that my good neighbours will not ascribe these 

 remarks to any disposition in me to call in question 

 the wisdom of that resolution. Figure I, in Plate 

 IV. exhibits a piece of the Garden-Hedge in eleva- 

 tion, in the winter season. See this Plate IV. in 

 Chapter V. 



LAYING-OUT. 



57. The Laying'Out of a Garden consists in the 

 division of it into several parts, and in the allotting 

 of those several parts to the several purposes for 

 which a garden is made. These parts consist of 



