158 A RAPID GROWTH.

 

“1 DUG UP A PIECE OF GROUND AS WELL AS I COULD ”

vember, I made a visit up the country to my bower, where, though
I had not been some months, yet I found all things just as I left
them. The circle, or double hedge, that I had made was not only
firm and entire, but the stakes, which I had cut out of some trees
that grew thereabouts, were all shot out and grown with long
branches, as much as a willow-tree usually shoots the first year
after lopping its head. I could not tell what tree to call it that
these stakes were cut from. I was surprised and yet very well