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example, deterred many from inclofing at all, and put others 

 on building ftone-walls at great expence, though neither fb 

 beautiful, nor improving to the fields around, as lofty hedges 

 well trained. I fliall therefore endeavour to give fome few hints, 

 that, if flcilfuUy executed, will certainly promote their ufual 

 'growth and thicknefs, and that at little, if any greater expence 

 than attends the common practice. 



In order to inclofe a dry thin foil, mark out the fides of your 

 ditch four feet wide ; raife the turfs from the furface fixteen 

 inches fquare ; leave a fcarfment of eight inches within the top 

 of the ditch, and lay them with the green fide downwards ; three 

 rows of turfs will exhauft the furface of the ditch, when lay a 

 line of Sweet Briars three or four years old, (that have been 

 tranfplanted) , from a foot to eighteen inches afunder, and co- 

 ver them with the beft earth below the turf, laying the remain- 

 der, fo far as good, immediately beyond their roots, fo that a 

 deep border of the beft foil that the place will afford, to be af- 

 terwards planted with Thorns, may be formed. Procure turf 

 from the adjacent grounds, till you raife the bank eighteen inches 

 higher, and lay another line of Sweet Briars, placing them fo 

 that every plant may be above the interftices of the former line. 

 Thefe being alfo properly covered, finifli your ditch to the depth 

 of four feet, and as narrow at bottom as a man can ft and to 

 heave the foil over the bank : Proceed then to compleat the bank, 

 which, for an immediate oxitward fence, ought to be four feet 

 high ; and lay the higheft row of the turfs with the green fide 

 upwards, which will fooneft make them unite, and confolidatc 

 the whole. The common pra6lice is to make thefe banks flope 

 in the fame proportion the fides of the ditches do ; and the argu- 



