HEDGES, in Agriculture, are either planted to make fences round enclosures, or to divide the several parts of a garden. When they are designed as outward fences, they are planted either with hawthorn, crabs, or black-thorn; but those hedges which are planted in gardens, either to surround wilderness quarters, or to screen the other parts of a garden from sight, are planted according to the fancy of the owner; some preferring evergreens, in which case the holly is best; next the yew, then the laurel, laurestinus, phyllirea, &c. Others prefer the beech, the hornbeam, and the elm. See AGRICULTURE AND GARDENING.