General Instructions. 



who deliberate know not any sense in the word obedience. 

 As many hands as you like ; but only owe head, if you mean 

 to avoid the mortification of seeing your object defeated, 



OF FENCING THE GROUND. 



34. In many instances there are fences already, and then 

 you liavc only to keep these fences good, and, where hares 

 and rabbits abound, to keep them out as completely as pos- 

 sible. But it frequently happens, that a piece of raw ground 

 is to be planted ; and then there nmst be a new and etTec- 

 tual fence made. Suppose it to be part of a tract, on which 

 cuttle and sheep are turned out. The fence must not only 

 be etfcctual at first, but durable. In short, it must be a live 

 fence. The fence itself is a plantation, then; and it is one 

 which demands even greater care than any other ; for, if it 

 be insufticient, you plant the ground without even a chance 

 of success. The Jriute-thorn seldom grows well, or, at 

 \ci\st, quickly, in light and poor ground, or in chalk; but, 

 1 know of no ground, in which it would not do well, and 

 get up fpiickly, if well planted and well managed. The 

 usual way, in cases such as that here supposed, is, to throw 

 up a Ixuik on the edge of the enclosed land. Thus the base 

 of the bank is the solid ground. Upon this solid ground 

 comes the top mould from the ditch. The top of the bank 

 is composed of the earth from the bottom of the ditcli, 

 which is the very worst earth to be found on the spot ; and 

 in this earth, laid in a shape never to suck in a drop of wet, 

 and to be dried and baked through and through, the hedge 

 of small quicks is planted, and there left to carry on, single- 

 handed, a contest against the combined forces of docks, 

 thistles, and the coarsest kinds of grass. At the end of five 

 or six years the mortified owner sees here and there a wlnte- 

 thorn alive ; and he ought to bless his stars that he can see 

 even these. 



