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HEDGES

Volume 10 · 109 words · 1815 Edition

in Agriculture, are either planted to make fences round inclosures, 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, laurustinus, phyllirea, &c. Others prefer the beech, the hornbeam, and the elm. See AGRICULTURE and GARDENING.

HEDGE-Hog. See ERINACUS, MAMMALIA Index.

HEDGE-Sparrow. See MOTACILLA, ORNITHOLOGY Index.