10 | On Hedging. 
It is also necessary here to observe, that plants left 
long immersed in stale unchanged water, particularly if 
it is in any degree warmed by the heat of the weather, 
may be injured thereby, being exposed to an bs eile 
putrid fermentation. 
WATERING THE PLANTS. 
After they are planted this will seldom be requisite, 
except where they have been long detained by the way; 
in which case, after they have been refreshed by immer- 
sion in repeated changes of cool soft water on their arri- 
val, as has been already described, observe that in planting 
them. the place of every sixth row is to be left vacant, 
for the purpose of freely passing therein with the water- 
pot. A parcel of forked stakes, about eighteen inches 
or two feet long, being provided, sharpened at the butt 
end and stuck into the ground along each side of every 
bed, at the distance of eight or ten feet, a line of poles 
being laid from fork to fork on both sides, so as con- 
veniently to support a quantity of leafy boughs spread 
over the whole to screen the beds from the sun, and to 
impede the current of air, which particularly in the time 
of windy weather would be severe upon sickiy plants. 
The shade and daily watering may be continued for 
several weeks, or until the plants shew by their vigor- 
ous appearance that they are evidently out of danger, 
the watering may then be discontinued, and the shade 
removed by degrees, which the gradual shrinking of 
its dead leaves will contribute to effect, taking the op- 
portunity of cloudy weather to remove it altogether. 
