4 On Hedging. 
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of the ground, in order to form a fence, i is what here is 
meant by plain hedging, to distinguish it from the com- 
mon method used in Britain called hedge and ditch.* 
Plain hedging is, in its aspect, somewhat similar to a 
drilled row of Indian corn, and the culture and. cleaning 
from weeds is equally simple in the one as in the other. 
The effect of a judicious cultivation is also of parallel effi- 
cacy in both cases, allowing for the slower growth of the 
perennial hedge, when compared with the rapid progress 
of the annual corn. There is no artificial elevation of the 
earth contemplated in this method, and where an em- 
bankment is brought into the scheme, by way of assist- 
ance to the temporary fence, it is to stand exterior to 
the hedge, which is set in the usual upright position 
inside, where it is as susceptible of cultivation as if 
there was no ditching in the case. 
A row of hedge plants, projecting almost horizontally 
from the face ofa bank elevated over their roots, can be 
cultivated or assisted in their growth no other way after 
planting but by hand weeding; and in the pensile position 
in which the young cions are placed, the effects of dry 
weather would prove fatal to the health, if not to the 
life of the plants, insuch a climate as this, the first severe 
* Those who are curtous to understand the manner of con- 
ducting this the old way of hedging, will find m Mr. Ber- 
nard M‘Mahon’s American Gardener’s Callender,” a clear 
and excellent description thereof, with much other useful 
information in this art,as well as in the various departments 
of horticulture, &c. That valuable book has lately been pub- 
lished in Philadelphia, and in my opinion is well deserving 
of public patfonage. ~ 
