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are buried one year in the ground, to prepare them 
for vegetation before they are fown, it will not be fo 
long before this will become a good fence, as is ge- 
nerally imagined, ^ay, from fome trials of this kind, 
which I have made, I have found, that thole plants 
which have remained where they came up from feed, 
have made fnch progrefs as to overtake, in fix years, 
plants of two years growth, which were transplanted 
at the time when thefe feeds were fown. 
And if the hedges are raifed from feed, it will not be 
amifs to mix Holly berries with the Haws ; and if 
fo, thefe berries Should alfo be buried one year, to 
prepare them, fo that then both will come up toge- 
ther the following fpring; and this mixture of Holly 
with the Quick, will not only have a beautiful ap- 
pearance in the winter, but will alfo thicken the hedge 
at the bottom, and make it a better fence. 
But where the hedge is to be planted, the fets fiiould 
not be more than three years old from the Haws •, for 
when they are older, their roots will be hard and 
woody •, and as they are commonly trimmed off be- 
fore the fets are planted, fo they very often mifcarry •, 
and fuch of them as do live, will not make fo good 
progrefs as younger plants, nor are they fo durable ; 
for thefe plants will not bear tranfplanting fo well as 
many others, efpecially when they have ltood long in 
the feed-bed unremoved. 
The method of planting, as alfo of plafhing and 
pruning of thefe hedges, paving been fully explained 
under the article of Hedges, I fhail not repeat that 
here, but Shall only beg leave to add the method 
which is prefcribed by Thomas Franklin, Efq-, which 
he had long pradtifed in planting qf thefe hedges, 
■which is as follows : 
He firft Set out the ground for ditches and Quick ten 
feet in breadth •, he Subdivided that, by marking out 
two feet and a half on each fide (more or lefs at plea- 
fure) for the ditches, leaving five in the middle be- 
tween them ; then digging up two feet in the midft 
of thofe five feet, he planted the fets in •, which al- 
though it required more labour and charge, he fays, 
he foon found it repaid the coft. This done he began 
to dig the fofxes, and to fet up one row of turfs on 
the outfide of the Said five feet ; namely, one row on 
each fiaAthercof, the green fide outmoft, a little re- 
clining, fo as the Grafs might grow. 
After this, returning to the place he began at, he 
ordered one of the men to dig a fpit of the under-turf 
mould, and lay it between the turfs placed edgewife, 
as before defended, upon the two feet, which was 
purpofely dug in the middle, and prepared for the 
Sets, which the planter fet with two Quicks upon the 
furface of the earth almoft upright, whilft another 
workman laid the mould forwards about twelve inches, 
and then fet two more, and fo continued. 
This being finished, he ordered another row of turfs 
to be placed on each fide upon the top of the former, 
and filled the vacancy between the fets and turfs as 
high as their tops ; always leaving the middle, where 
the fets were planted, hollow, and fome what lower 
than the fides of the banks by eight or ten inches, 
that the rain may defcend to their roots •, which is of 
great advantage to their growth, and by far better 
than by the old method, where the banks are made 
too much Hoping ; and the roots of the fets are fel- 
dom wetted, even in a moift feafon, the Summer fol- 
lowing •, but if it prove' dry, many of the fets, espe- 
cially the late planted, will perifh. ; and even few of 
thofe that had been planted in the beginning of 
April (the fummer happening to be fomewhat dry) 
efcaped. 
The planting being thus advanced, the next care is 
fencing, by fetting a hedge of about twenty inches 
high upon the top of the bank on each fide thereof, 
leaning a little outwards from the fets, which will 
protect them as well (if not better) than a hedge of 
three feet or more, Handing on the furface of the 
ground ; for as thefe are raifed with the turfs and fods 
about twenty inches, and the hedge about twenty 
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inches more, It will make three feet four inches, fd 
as no cattle can approach the dead hedge to prejudice 
it, unlefs they fet their feet in the ditch itfelf, which 
will be at leaft a foot and a , half deep ; and from the 
bottom of the fofs to the top of the hedge, about four 
feet and a half, which they can hardly reach over to 
crop the Quick, as they might in the old way ; 
and befides, fuch a dead hedge will endure a year 
longer. 
He fays, he had a hedge which had flood five years $ 
and though nine or ten feet were Sufficient for both 
ditches and banks, yet where the ground is but in- 
different, it is better husbandry to take twelve feet, 
which will allow of a bank at leaft fix feet broad, and 
gives more fcope to place the dead hedges farther from 
the fets, and the ditches being Shallow, will in two 
years time graze. 
As to the objection, that taking twelve feet waftes 
too much ground, he affirms, that if twelve feet in 
breadth be taken for a ditch and bank, there will no 
more ground be wafted than by the common way ; 
for in that a Quick is rarely fet, but there are nine 
feet between the dead hedges, which is entirely loft 
all the time of fencing ; whereas with double ditches, 
there remain at leaft eighteen inches cn each fide 
where the turfs were fet on edge, that bear more 
Grafs than when it lay on the fiat. 
But, admitting it did totally lay wafte three feet of 
ground, the damage would be very inconfiderable ; 
fince forty perches, in length, two hundred and 
twenty yards will make perches 7, 25", 9', or 7 poles 
4-s which at 13 s. and 4d. the acre, amounts not . to 
yd. ~ per annum. 
Now that this is not only the beft, but cheapeft way 
of Quick-fetting, will appear by comparing the charge 
of both. 
In the ufual way, the charge of a three feet ditch is 
4d. per pole, the owner providing fets •, if the work- 
man finds them, he will have for making the faid 
ditch and fetting them, 8 d. per pole ; and for hedg- 
ing, 2d. that is, for both fides, 4d. the pole j 
which renders the charge of hedging, ditching, and 
fets, 12 d. the pole ; that is, for forty rods in length 
40 s. 
Then one load of wood out of the copfe cofts (with 
the carrriage, though but two or three miles diftancej 
1 os. which will feldom hedge above eight poles 
(Angle hedge;) but allowing to do ten, to fence 
forty poles, there mu ft be at leaft eight loads of wood, 
which cofts 4I. making the whole expence for ditch- 
ing, fencing, and fetting forty poles, to be 6 1 . reck- 
oning with the leaft ; for fcarce any will undertake to 
do it for lefs than 3 s. 6 d. per pole, and then the 
forty poles coft 7 1. 
"Whereas with double ditches, both of them, with 
the plants included, will be done for 8 d. the pole, 
and the hufbandman get as good wages as with the 
fingle ditch (for though the labour about them is 
more, yet the making the table is faved,) which cofts 
1 1. 6 s. 8 d. and the hedges being low, they will 
make better v/ages at hedging for a penny a pole, 
than at 2 d. for common hedges, which comes to 6's- 
8 d. for hedging forty poles on both fides. Thus 
one load of wood will fence thirty poles at leaft, and 
forty hedged with two thirds of wood lefs than in the 
other way, and coft but 1 1. 6 s. 8 d. which makes 
the other whole charge of fets, ditching, fencing, 
and wood, but 3 1. 
QJJ I C K-B E A M. See Sorbus Sylvestris. 
QU INCE-TREE. See Cydonia. 
QU INCUNX ORDER isa plantation of trees, 
difpofed originally in a fquare, confifting of five trees, 
one at each comer, and a fifth in the middle, which 
difpofition, repeated again and again, forms a regu- 
lar grove, wood, or wildernefs, and, when viewed 
by an angle of the fquare or parallelogram, prefents 
equal or parallel alleys. 
Or, the Quincunx is the figure of a plantation of 
trees difpofed in feveral rows, both length and 
j 1 D breadth^ 
