1806.] On Ratsing Live Fences. 928

and durable walls‘can‘be built at an easy expence: rail or pale fences are very improper except in and near towns, on ac- count of their heavy expence in repáirs. The continual œced- ing which quick fences requive, the great injury which the plants sustain from weeds, 1f the same are ât any time suffered to grow up, and thé damage which the pulling or hoecing up of weeds so repeatedly, do, in wéaring away the soil, and more or less exposing the roots of the quicks, and besides these, the plants being often wounded in their tender bark by the hoes used by the weeders, aré most serious difficulties inthe raising óf quiek-fénces, wherever our experience has extendéd, except in the north-eastern parts of Norfolk, where the spirited and intelligent tenants, that there abound, have a method of raising fences, which they are continually doing during the currency of their leases, that we are happy, in this instance, of being able to mention, because it has not yet, wé believe, appeared in print.

€ The líúe of an intended hedge and ditch being marked out, the first step is, to collect carefully all the top-soil orf vegetable mould into à ridge, where the centre of the bank is to be, and if this vegetable mould proves too abundant, the eXtra quantity is thrown into heaps fürther off, in order'to be mixed with dung, or carted io some párts of the land, which wants a greater staple of mould."This done, a row of spits or lumps of earth out of thé ditch ave laid carefully in the front of the báauk, and on thése, when reduced to a regular Tine by páring with the spade, the white-thorn sets are placed a little inclining upwards, at about four or six inches apart; caré is taken in laying in thé sets, that their roots are bedded in the vegetable mould, thatis lo form the centre of the bank; when this is done, another row of spits or lumps is dug out of the bottom of the ditch, and laid upon the quicks, which being patted down and levelled at top with the spade, as before; another row of quick=-sets is laid in, taking care that each plant in the upper row is over a space in the lower one, and that their roots are inclosed in the top-soil.

« Other sods are then dug out of the ditch and piled up, with the proper slope or batter, until the bank is raised to the intended height; the vegetable mould is then dressed up into a regular bank at the back, and the remainder of the stuff from the ditch is thrown over, and is afterwards carefully spread and laid up against the back of the bank, so as entire- ly to enclose the vegetable soìil in a case of dead-earth, or stutF taken, from below where cultivation has deposited the seeds, or nature the viviparous roots, of such plants.

“ Suill further to accomplish this exclusion of the soil in the bank, from the action of the sun, air, and other stimulants