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The distilled Water and Stone, ox Kernels of the Haw reduced toLn. XX<Rowder, -ft generally agreed to be foveraign against the Stone. TheBlack-Crab , rightly seasoned and treated, is famous for Walking-jtaves,and if over-grown, used in MiU-work ; yea, and for Rafters of greatShits. Here we owe due Eulogy to the Industry of the late LordShaftsbury, who has taught us to make such Inclosures of Crab-Stocksonly (planted close to one another) as there is nothing more impreg-nable and becoming; or you may sow Cyder-kernels in a Rill , andfence it for a while with a double dry Hedge , not only for a suddenand beautiful, but a very profitable Inclojure ; because, amongst otherBenefits, they will yield you Cyder-fruit in abundance : But in Devou-jhire , they build two Walls with their Stones, setting them Edge-ways,two, and then one between; and so as it rises, fill the Interval, or Cofer,with Earth (the Breadth and Height as you please) and continuingthe Stone-work, and filling, and, as you work, beating in the Stonesflat to the Sides, they are made to stick everlastingly. This is absolute-ly the neatest, most saving, and profitable Fencing imaginable, whereJlaty Stones are in any abundance ; and it becomes not only the mostsecure to the Lands , but the best for Cattle, to lie warm under theWalls', whilst other Hedges (bethey never so thick) admit of somecold Winds in Winter-time when the Leaves are off. Upon these Banksthey plant not only Quick-fets, but even Timber-trees , which exceed-ingly thrive, being out of all Danger.

iz. The Ryracantha Raliurus, and like precioufer .Sorts of Thornand robust Ever-greens, adorned with Caralin-Berries, might easilybe propagated by Seeds, Layers or Cuttings, into Plenty sufficient tostore even these vulgar D/es, were Men industrious ; and then, howbeautiful and sweet would the Environs of our Fields be! for thereare none of the fpinous Shrubs more hardy, none that make a moreglorious Shew, nor fitter for our Defence, competently armed, espe-cially the Rhannus , which I therefore joyn to the Oxycantha , for itsterrible and almost irresistible Spines, able almost to pierce a Goat ofMail ; and for this made use of by the malicious Jews , to crown thesacred Temples of our Blessed Saviour , and is yet preferred among themost venerable Re licks in St. Chapel at Raris, as is pretended by theDevotees, &c. and hence has the Tree (for it sometimes exceeds a Shrub )the Name of Chris’s Thorn. Thus might Barberies now and then bealso inserted among our Hedges, which, with the Hips, Haws andCornel-berries, do well in light Lands , and would rather be planted tothe South, than North or Weft, as usually we observe them.

13. Some (as we noted) mingle their very Hedges with Oaklings ,

Ash, and Fruit-Trees, sown or planted, and ’tis a laudable Improve-ment ; though others do rather recommend to us Sets of all one Sort, andwill not so much as admit of the Black-Thorn to be mingled with theWhite , because of their unequal Progress j and indeed, Timber-treesset in the Hedge (though Contemporaries with it) do frequently wearit out; and therefore I should rather encourage such Rlantations to beat some J'ards Distance, near the Verges, than perpendicularly inthem. Lafily, if in planting any the most robust Forest-Trees (especial-ly Oak, Elm, Chefnut) at competent Spaces, and in Rows, you opena Ring of Ground, at about four Foot Distance from the Stem, andprick m Quick-fet Plants; you may after a while, keep them clipped,at what Height you please : They will appear exceedingly beautiful to

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