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matis vitalba), which is suffered to overtop the hedgewoods, and form arbors on their heads! Yet this, being a perennial plant, might be checked, at a trifling expence, compared with the mischiefs it is capable of doing, in a state of neglect—in this its na- tural situation and soil.

MopDERN HEDGES are of hawthorn, plant- ed in single-rows, in the usual manner; and, on the deeper soils, they thrive with luxuriance; notwithstanding the extraor- dinary treatment they are subjected to. When a hedge of this kind is cut, it is usually felled to the ground, and a full- bottomed dead-hedge set upon the stubs! as if to prevent it, effectually, from rising again.

Remarks. This, under ordinary cir- cumstances, might be improper: but, in a country where sheepare the pasturing stock, and where they have no other shrubs, than those of the hedges, to satisfy their natural cravings, it appears to be singularly eligible, if judiciously executed: for a sufficiency of shoots are found to make their way, up- ward, through the spray of the dead hedge- wood; which defends them from the bite of sheep, without the expence of a double line of fencing.

Some skill, no doubt, is requisite, to form a dead hedge of this intention. Forming

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