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capable of making bakers’ faggots may be of some value.Even the wild fruit of crabs or other trees may be of use inhedge-rows, where also they are ornamental. These con-siderations ought never to weigh so far as to occasion mate-rial injury to the fences ; but, if this can be avoided, they de-serve attention in every plan of inclosure. Sometimes, byclearing the ground to be inclosed from stones, with which itis incumbered, the materials of inclosure may be very conve-niently obtained.
PART IV.
OF FENCES, GATES, AND STYLES.
SECT. I.
ON THE NATURE OF FENCES IN GENERAL.
Jt is now proposed to describe the kinds of fences most com-monly used in Scotland , more especially those best adaptedfor use, according to various circumstances in regard to soil,climate, situation and mode of occupancy; but as these sub-jects have been already illustrated, and at considerable length,in several well-known agricultural publications, it does notseem necessary to extend the discussion to any great lengthin this work*.
* The subject of inclosures and fences will be found treated of in detail, inthe Communications to the Board of Agriculture, Vol. ii. Part I. p. 144;—inthe Husbandry of Scotland, Part I. Chap. I. Sect. 3. and 4.; and in Essays re-lating to Agriculture and Rural Affairs, by the late ingenious James Anderson ,LL.D. vol. i. pp. 1—198. All of these treatises on this important subject arefully illustrated by engravings, which likewise, in a great measure, preclude thenecessity of giving explanatory figures in the present portion of the General Re-port of Scotland.