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together, as that it encloseth rabbits in warrens instead of pales : and for CH/VP. vi. 

 this robust use we shall prefer the Black Thorn ; the extravagant suckers, '^-^'Y^^^ 

 which are apt to rise at a distance from the hedge-line, being sedulously 

 extirpated, that the rest may grow the stronger and thicker. 



And now since I did mention it, and that most I find do greatly affect 

 the vulgar way of quicking, (that this our Discourse being in nothing 

 deficient,) we will in brief give it you again after George INIarkham's 

 description, because it is the best and most accurate, although much re- 

 sembling our former direction, of which it seems but a repetition, till he 

 comes to the plashing. In ground which is more dry than wet, (for 

 watery places it abhors,) plant your quick thus ; let the first rows of sets 

 be placed in a trench of about half a foot deep, even with the top of your 

 ditch, in somewhat a sloping or inclining posture ; then having raised 

 your bank near a foot upon them, plant another row, so as their tops may 

 just peep out over the middle of the spaces of your first row : these 

 covered again to the height or thickness of the other, place a third rank 

 opposite to the first, and then finish your bank to its intended height. 

 The distances of the plants should not be above one foot ; and the season 

 to do the work in, may be from the entry of February till the end of 

 March, or else in September to the beginning of December. When this 

 is finished, you must guard both the top of your bank, and outmost verge 

 of your ditch, with a suflScient dry hedge, interwoven from stake to stake 

 into the earth, which commonly they do on the bank, to secure your 

 quick from the spoil of cattle. And then being careful to repair such 

 as decay, or do not spring, by supplying the dead and trimming the rest, 

 you shall, after three years' growth, sprinkle some trees amongst them, 

 such as Oak, Beech, Ash, Maple, Fruit, and the like ; which being 

 drawn young out of your nurseries, may be very easily inserted. 



I am not in the mean time ignorant of what is said against the scat- 

 tering these masts and keys among our fences ; which grown, over-top 

 the subnascent hedge, and prejudice it with their shade and drip. But 

 this might be prevented by planting Hollies, proof against these impedi- 

 ments, in the line or trench where you would raise standards, as far as 

 thoy usually spread in many years, and which, if placed at good distances, 

 how close soever to the stem, would, besides their stout defence, prove 

 a wondrous decoration to large and ample enclosures. But to resume 



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