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>t thorns had been planted on it. The only caution neceffary to be given in this cafe, is, to avoid fowing any high-growing plant upon thefe intervals for the firft year or two, left they fhould over-top the young thorns, and hurt their growth. If the foil is fit for carrying onions, that would be a very proper crop for the firft year: or, if this{hall be thought impro- per, dwarf-peafe may be fowed in their {tead, or any other low-growing annual plant that may beft fuit the circumftances or fituation of the poffeffor.

But whatever crop- may be put upon the ground the firft year after the thorns are tran{planted, it\is neceffary that it fhould be, at all times, kept quite clear of weeds. In the fucceeding winter, the earth between the rows ought to be dug over with the f{pade, taking care to go very clofe to the rows, and to work with a very fharp-edged tool, the operator always tak- Ing care to force his fpade ftraight down, with the back of the fpade towards the thorns on each fide of the row, as clofe to it as poflible, fo as to cut the greateft part of the lateral roots as near the body of the

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