PHOTO OF THE DAY July 20, 2005  

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Where United Kingdom
When 1992
Photographer Sam Abell

Hot water bottles lie across a hedge. There are anywhere from a dozen to 50 or more types of hedges in Britain. Each type is as distinctive and as historic as the county in which it stands.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hedgerows," September 1992, National Geographic magazine)


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