12 On Hedging. ‘Ss 
upon the state of the weather, can only be determined 
by the appearance of the weeds 
TAKING UP THE PLANTS. 
If, after the fall of the leaf, they are judged to be of 
4 proper size to plant in hedges, they are to be dug up 
with a strong spade, the workmen being careful to ob- 
tain with every plant a proper quantum of root, such | 
as will evidently be sufficient to nourish it. The plants _ 
will be probably of different sizes, and it will there- 
fore be necessary to have them separated into three or 
four different sorts as they are taken up, and if there are 
some that do not yet appear of a size fit for hedging, 
these are to be placed by themselves and trenched apart 
until the next spring, when they are again to be plant- 
ed in the nursery. If the plants do not appear generally 
to be large enough for immediate hedging; though a 
sufficient number to begin upon could be culled out 
from among the rest, these only may be taken up and 
the residue suffered to remain in the rows another year, 
fastening any of them that may happen to be loosened in 
taking up the others, by pressing down the earth about 
their roots with the feet. It will be hard to describe in 
an intelligible manner, the right size for hedging, as this 
depends not altogether upon the height that a plant may 
have attained, but also upon its strength and apparently 
healthy condition, not forgetting to take the size and 
number of its roots also mto the estimate. Each of the 
different assorted sizes of the plants are to be trenched 
hy themselves, and are to be carefully spread pretty 
thiy in the trench ina sloping position, and the roots 
well covered with mould, and also half way up the © 
