+---+---------------------+-----------------------+-------------------+ |No.| Botanical Name. | Trivial Name. | Remarks. | +---+---------------------+-----------------------+-------------------+ | 1 |Salix species |Willows, various | | | 2 |Berberis vulgaris |Barberry |}Spinous under- | | 3 |Rosa species |Wild Roses (briars), |}shrubs. | | | |various |} | | 4 |Rubus species |Brambles, various | }Woody climbing | | 5 |Clematis vitalba |Traveller’s Joy | }plants. | | 6 |Hedera helix |Ivy | } | | 7 |Solanum dulcamara |Bitter-sweet Nightshade|}Climbing | | 8 |Tamus communis |Black Bryony |}herbs,—mostly | | 9 |Bryonia dioica |White Bryony |}twisting around | |10 |Humulus lupulus |Wild Hop |}the stems of the | |11 |Convolvulus sepium |Larger Bindweed |}stronger hedge- | |12 |Galium species |Bedstraw, various |}plants. | | | | |{Weeds of the lower| |13 |Glechoma hederacea |Ground Ivy |{parts of hedges, | |14 |Geranium Robertianum |Herb, Robert Cranesbill|{which smother out | |15 |Carduus varieties |Various Thistles |{young quicks, and | |16 |Umbelliferæ varieties|Hedge Parsley, &c. |{prevent the old | |17 |Graminaceæ varieties |Grasses |{ones from being | | | | |{thick at “bottom.”| +---+---------------------+-----------------------+-------------------+ As regards the plants of this list, it will only be necessary to refer to a few of them, in order the more fully to impress the principles we have laid down. The roses (briars) and brambles, though spinous, are yet short-lived; so that their old wood is continually dying out, thus causing gaps, inasmuch as such heavily-foliaged plants necessarily prevent the growth of the whitethorn or any other tolerable hedge-plant. But, besides this, the bramble has the propensity to root at the ends of its long flexile branches, and so spreads the pest in every direction, not escaping the ditch when it forms part of the fence, that the whole becomes smothered up in a tangled, inextricable mass, always out of order and unsightly, making but a poor fence, though affording shelter to hares, rabbits, and other farm pests.