General Instructions. 



soon too stout for her to attack; and she must wriggle 

 through as well as she can. 



38. But, there must be a fence of some sort before the 

 quick hedge become effectual. The kind must depend on 

 local circumstances ; but, be it what it may, the best way 

 of securing the Lank is to make it, if possible, in wettish 

 weather ; to make it slop pretty much, so as to prevent 

 crumbling down; to hang it with bushes all over; to peg 

 those bushes icell down; and, at the time of making the 

 bank, to sow it very thickly with the sweepings of a mea- 

 dow-hay loft. These seeds, beaten in with the spade, will, 

 in f-ilmost any sort of ground, make more or less of a turf 

 in a short time. The bushes will keep off invaders ; and 

 thus the bank will become firm. 



39. There are other sorts of plants fit for live hedges ; 

 but, though I shall speak of these by-and-by, the White- 

 thornh, and always must be, our great resource in this way. 



OF THE TIMES OF THE YEAR, AMD OF THE WEATHER, 

 FOR PLANTING TREES. 



40. We must here, as in many other cases, yield obedience 

 to circumstances. If I could have my choice; if I could 

 have, in this respect, just what I pleased, I would trench 

 in March, and ])lant in April. But this, except upon a very 

 small scale, can hardly ever be. It is always an advantage 

 to put seeds and plants into fresh-moved grouml. If of two 

 cabbage plants, you put one into fresh-dug ground, and 

 ihe other into ground that has been dug a considerable 

 time, or only a week before, though the spots be within a 

 yard of each other, you will (the plants foeing alike as to age, 



