AND FENCES.‘3

tion in recommending this as the cheap- eft and be{t temporary fence that can be reared.

The greateft inconvenience that attends this{pecies of fence, is the danger it runs of being torn down by the horns, or watt- éd away by the rubbing of cattle upon it, which they will fometimes do even where the ditches have been properly formed. This may be effectually prevented, by

planting a row of iweet-briar(Eglantine*)

* As this plant forms a moft ufeful affiftant to maay others in fencing, I fhall probably have occafion_ to mention it in fome future parts of this Effay: I hall, therefore, in this place, mention the method of rearing it. Let the berries, or hips, as they are ufually cailed, be gathered when ripe, and pitted in the ground, likehaws, or other kernelled feeds, for one year, and fowed in the eniuing fpring, in a bed of light rich garden-mold: they will quickly appear; and, as they grow very fatt, fome of the ftrongeft of them may be taken up the firft winter, and planted where they are to remain. All the others may be planted out the winter after that; fo that they require but fhort time and little room in the nurfery, and are, therefore, reared at a very{mall ex- pence.

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