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Early in Oclobcr, while the ground is warm, begin planting 

 thefe hedges where they are meant to remain. To efFe6l this 

 properly, throw out a trench as formerly, but both wider and 

 ■deeper than to contain the roots : If the ground is poor and 

 thin, lay a flratum of any middling frefh foil at the bottom of 

 the trench fix or eight inches deep, or, where your fituation will 

 admit, the more the better ; and having levelled the trench to a 

 -depth fuitable for receiving the plants, let the earth fettle for 

 fome days, that it may not afterwards fubfide in any material 

 degree. In the mean time, before raifmg the hedges you in- 

 tend, go over them vAth a light fliarp hedge-bill, and cut out 

 all fuch branches, particularly towards the top, as are too thick 

 crov/ded together ; cut them to your dehred height, not exceed- 

 ing fix feet high ; then raife, and plant them as directed for the 

 former removal, at fuch diftances as to join entirely clofe 

 together ; let them have a plentiful watering at planting, and 

 repeat it three or four times during the dry fpring and fummer 

 months, when, after being eftabliflied one year, they will refill 

 the rudeft attempts of the wildeft animals in this country. 



The wind is the great enemy of new-planted Thorn-hedges 

 at any conhderable fize ; but, by the judicious performance of 

 what has here been dire6led, from which the root will be a full 

 balance for the body, it cannot polfibly have the fmalleft ill ef- 

 fe6l. Every gardener of common underflanding, in order to 

 fave feveral years growth, juftly enquires after old hedges, (I mean 

 I fuch as are not, from age or other circumftances, in a decaying 

 ftate), in order to cut them over to effedl that defirable end. I need 

 not mention, that fuch grow more in one year than a young 

 Thorn in three or four ; and if they grow freely without any pre- 

 ceding culture, when cut over, and removed at the fame time, 



