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AND FENCES. 2i faced with ftones. This laft method,

-therefore, ought to be avoided as much as may be, and the firft be praétifed in all cafes where it can conveniently be done.

Of thofe who practife this method of planting a hedge, fome plant only one row of thorns, while others prefer a double, and others even a triple row, placed at different heights in the face of the bank; putting the plants in each of thefe rows oppofite to the interftices of the other rows. But as either the double or triple rows are attended with the inconvenience of not eafily admitting either the hand or tools to clean them after the firft year, the fingle row ought always to be preferred, except upon fuch foils as are quite free of weeds: for, if. weeds{pring up, and are allowed to grow without moleftation, the

. hedge will be quickly choaked up with

them, and ftinted in its growth. Indeed,

I am of opinion, that the fingle row is in

all cafes the moft eligible; as it is not only more eafily cleaned, but likewife for

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the moft part advances with greater vi- gour, and becomes at laft a{ftronger and

a better fence than where more rows are

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