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6 BR Hedging. 
ment accidental circumstances may render necessary, 
remembering always that a small degree of moisture, 
more or less according to the state of the atmosphere, 
is necessary at all times for the preservation and health 
of the plants, while they remain out of the earth. 
NURSERY FOR. THE PLANTS. 
The soil most fit for a nursery to the young plants 
of the haw-thorn, is a free, rich, deep black loam, that 
has previously been in a cultivated state, rather inclined — 
to moist than dry, rather situate at the bottom than the 
top of a height, rather on the flat summit than on the 
declivity of a hill, and where such a soil and situation 
cannot be had, that which comes nearest to this descrip- 
tion ought to be preferred. A soil that would suit for 
cabbages, and ina similar state of preparation as would 
answer well for that vegetable, will also answer for the | 
most part of such plants as are used in hedging. It 
will, however, be of great advantage to have the piece 
of ground appropriated for this purpose, digged from 
fifteen to eighteen inches deep ; if the soil will not ad- 
mit of more than twelve inches in depth it may do, but 
less than that would be too shallow to produce fine 
thriving plants. If the state of the soil should render 
it necessary, it must be turned up rough or trenched 
by the spade in the beginning of winter, in order that 
it may be mellowed by the frost, and also that it may 
be clean from the remains of former productions, and 
work free and easy when it comes to be turned over, 
levelled and dressed in the POE 
