On Hedging. 11 
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_ Or should the proprietor, from a laudable motive of 
having large sized and excellent plants, be willing to 
incur this trouble and expense, the plants may be water- 
ed for a few weeks at first, although they have been 
planted at the proper season, and are no ways sickly. 
In the time of dry weather, when this watering will 
only be wanted, the water must not be sparingly used 
when once begun ; for if an inch or a little better of 
the surface merely is wetted, the plants in place of be- 
nefit, will be injured thereby ; as the soil farther down 
at their feeding fibres will still continue dry where 
moisture is most wanted, and that at the top will 
either do no good or stimulate the putting out of roots 
too near the surface. In the time of severe drought, 
therefore, let the soil be thoroughly drenched, if at all, 
and this regularly repeated every evening while the dry 
weather continues. But, though in this last case the 
alleys, in place of every sixth row, will be wanted for 
the conveniency of passing to water the plants, there 
will be little occasion for any shade. 
WEEDING. 
This is an important operation, and must not be delay- 
ed at any time longer than the weeds are yet so low as to 
be hoed expeditiously. A small garden hoe is best for this 
purpose, the weeder being careful to walk in the row not 
yet weeded, for his tread would tend to re-plant some 
of the weeds were he to follow after the hoe with his 
feet in the same row. The weeds among the stems of 
the plants are at the same time to be attentively pulled 
up by hand. The number of times which this operation 
is necessary in the course of the season depending upon 
