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three Years; for after this Time the Plants 
will, by this Means, get high, and able enough 
to keep down the Growth of Weeds of them- 
felves. And how little this Piece of good 
Huibandry oyght to be grudged, may be per- 
ceived, by the Account I have given of a 
Chefiire Gentleman, w T ho was fo exacft in weed- 
ing his very common Pledges, that when Per- 
sons came at a confiderable Diftance, on pur- 
pofe to view his neat managed Farm, they laid, 
that it appeared to them much better than the 
Character they had heard of it. — If this Crab- 
Tree Hedge is raifed by Sets, they may be 
plaifhed at about four Years End, if they are 
grown two Foot high ; but it then Ihould be 
done by a very fkiiful Hand, for upon this 
depends much of its good After-growth ; I 
mean, by fach a Workman as knows how to 
make his Cut at a right Part of the Crab-Shoot, 
for bowing or plailhing it down; otherwife iuch 
a young Hedge may be fo damaged, as to be 
hindered of feveral Years Growth in a true 
Order. 
C H A P. 
