On Hedging. ee | 
IN OPEN WEATHER. 
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When the box arrives it is to be immediately opened 
and the plants taken out, but if iate in the day it would — 
be as well to defer it until the next morning; when 
being carefully separated from the stuffing, they are to 
be laid regularly in small parcels of about fifty or a hun- 
dred, with their roots all one way. Each of these par¢els 
are then to be washed, by plunging them up and down, 
or from side to side, in a vessel of water to refresh them, 
and to clear away any filth they may have contracted 
during their confinement. They are then to be laid in 
a trench formed in some secure and convenient place 
for this purpose, being spread therein, preity thin, in a 
sloping position, and covered all over with mould, ex- 
cept so much of their tops as just to shew where they 
are. 
If, however, the season for planting them be at hand, 
they may be returned into the box after they are 
washed, laying a little of the stuffing over them, and 
the lid being shut to prevent injury from rats or 
mice, let the box be placed on the floor of a cellar, 
where it may remain until conveniency serves to have 
them planted. But if the proper season for planting is 
yet at a distance, and the ground happens to be extreme- 
ly wet when the box arrives, it may, with its con- 
tents, be lodged in the cellar until the soil is sufficiently 
dry to have the plants deposited in the ground as above 
directed. And if at’ such early season a sudden frost 
should detain them in the cellar for a considerable pe- 
riod they will suffer no injury thereby, provided the box 
is well secured from vermin. 
