ft. in. Traveller’s Joy (clematis) 3 0 Gap 12 0 Whitethorn 4 0 Ash 3 6 Whitethorn, brambles, &c. 10 0 Clematis 18 0 Sycamore stump 4 0 Brambles, &c. 8 0 Maple brambles, with occasional whitethorn bush 33 0 Nut and gaps 11 0 Blackthorn and brambles 6 6 Guelder rose 3 0 Blackthorn, &c. 5 0 Elder 3 0 Blackthorn, maple, and others, with occasional whitethorn 20 0 The same, smothered with clematis 28 0 -------- Total 172 0 These three examples will be sufficient to show the fact that, in the lapse of years, a hedge originally planted either all or nearly all quicks, ultimately contains almost everything besides. How this comes about may be easily observed. Birds and other creatures are constantly taking fruits of various plants to the hedge-rows, the seeds of which being dropped there, soon vegetate; and if shrubs with heavier twigs and broader leaves once ascend into the hedge, they overshadow the smaller leaves of the quicks, and ultimately so discourage them that they all but die out, and it is not at all difficult to see that the success of the interlopers is only augmented by the injuries to the quicks. A more minute inquiry into the natural history and mode of operation of hedge-row weeds will be best preceded by a list of such plants as may be considered to act as weeds in a properly planted whitethorn hedge. In doing this we may premise that, if our object has been to plant quicks, interlopers of all kinds, whether trees or shrubs—in fact, all but the plant which we have purchased and planted—can scarcely be considered other than as weeds. To these interlopers, then, we may add the following list, as containing a series of plants that will be, perhaps, more generally recognized as weeds:— LIST OF HEDGE-ROW WEEDS.