pipkin with nearly half a pint of white wine, a bunch of sweet
herbs, two onions, a little mace, a little grated nutmeg, and some
oyster liquor. Boil these till the liquor is wasted, then add three or
four large spoonfuls of melted butter. Drain the cod's head well over a
chafing-dish of coals, and serve it up with the above sauce, taking out
the bunch of herbs, and adding more butter, if required. Serve up the
liver and roe on the sides of the dish.

QUICK HEDGES. A great variety of different sorts of plants is employed
in forming and constructing these hedges, as those of the hawthorn, the
black-thorn, the crab-tree, the hazel, the willow, the beech, the elder,
the poplar, the alder, and several other kinds, according to particular
circumstances and situations. Whatever sort of plants may be employed
for this purpose, the work should constantly be well performed in the
first instance, and the hedges and plants be afterwards kept in due
order and regularity by suitable pruning, cutting in, and other proper
management. Excellent hawthorn hedges are raised by planting one row
only at six inches asunder, rather than two rows nine inches or a foot
apart. Those planted six inches apart do not require to be cut down to
thicken them at the bottom, and will form a complete protection against
hogs, and in other respects form a beautiful and effectual fence.

QUICKSILVER, when rubbed down and blended with unctuous matters, forms a
sort of ointment, which is useful in the curing of different diseases of
the skin, as well as in destroying lice and other vermin that infest
animals of different kinds, which form the live stock of the farmer. It
has also been found useful in its crude state in destroying insects on
fruit trees. Take a small awl, and pierce sloping, through the rind, and
into part of the wood of the branch, but not to the heart or pith of it;
and pour in a small drop or two of the quicksilver, and stop it up with
a small wooden plug made to fit the orifice, and the insects will drop
off from that very branch the next day; and in a day or two more, from
the other branches of the trees without any other puncture, and the tree
will continue in full vigour and thrive well through the summer.
Honeysuckles and other shrubs may be cleared of insects, by scraping
away the top of the ground with a trowel, and running an awl in the same
sloping manner, into the main stem just above the roots; but with the
same caution as a