. Elements of practical agriculture; comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm. (544 GENERAL ECONOMY OF THE FARM. and fill the interval of the gap, espe- Fj m cially if the earth of the gap has been filled with new soil, well dunged and limed. A gap renewed in this man- ner will appear as in the figure. When hedges are lopped down to the ground in the manner described, they must be protected until the new shoots have attained a certain size, as in the case of new fences. But it is not usually necessary to have recourse to paling
. Elements of practical agriculture; comprehending the cultivation of plants, the husbandry of the domestic animals, and the economy of the farm. (544 GENERAL ECONOMY OF THE FARM. and fill the interval of the gap, espe- Fj m cially if the earth of the gap has been filled with new soil, well dunged and limed. A gap renewed in this man- ner will appear as in the figure. When hedges are lopped down to the ground in the manner described, they must be protected until the new shoots have attained a certain size, as in the case of new fences. But it is not usually necessary to have recourse to paling, because the thorns cut down furnish themselves material for forming a suf- ficient fence, termed a dead hedge. A dead hedge is thus formed :—The workman cuts the stems of the thorns into lengths of 3 or 4 feet. He forms bundles of these, mixing with them the smaller twigs, and compressing them so that they shall adhere together. Another person with a spade, working on the line which the dead hedge is to occu- py, takes up a sod or spadeful of earth; and a bundle of twigs being handed to him, he places the but-end of the bundle in the hole made by the spade, and leaning against the earth thrown out. He then lifts another sod or spadeful of earth, and places it upon the but-end of Fig. 20a the first bundle, compressing it firm- ly with his foot; and in this manner he forms the line of the fence. The fence, when finished, appears as in the figure ; and a proper situation for it is on the mound im- mediately behind the thorns. The plant which has been especially referred to as calculated for the hedge, is the hawthorn. But there are two other plants, similar in appearance, which are sometimes cultivated, either separately or intermixed with the hawthorn. These are, Pru- nus spinosa, the Sloe, and Pyrus acerba, the Wild Apple or Crab. Both of these plants grow readily, and bear cutting, ut they are not so well suited for cultivation for hedge-plants as the hawthorn. A plant some
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