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experience of ivy growing very well upon a dry ftone-dike; and have likewife feen it growing up the walls, and covering whole cottages built of feal, which have by this means been preferved entire, long after other naked walls of the fame kind have fallen to decay. But, not having had plants of this kind at hand, I have not had an opportunity of trying it in the manner propofed; although I think there is the greateft reaton to hope for fuccets*.

Sly. Of White- Thorn Hedges.

Tue fences before mentioned may be employed upon particular occafions; but,

* Since writing the above, I have met with Dr. Haf- flequift’s Voyages, who defcribes, in the higheft terms of rapture, the beautiful appearance of the garden walls all around Smyrna, entirely covered with ivy. He does not f{pecify the materials of which thofe walls are com~ pofed, but it is probable they may be various: his obfervations, at leaft, fhow the practicability of what LT have recommended, Ivy may be propagated by cut- tings; but it is probable that they would require to be well rooted in garden-mold, before they were planted out for good. It grows freely from feeds,

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