22 - On Hedging 
parcel of neat trimmed corn-stalks, provided for the 
purpose, are to be laid singly, about eight or ten yards 
from each other across the trench to support the garden 
line, which is now to be stretched from the first to the 
second pole, observing if it is not exactly straight 
through its whole extent, and having it rectified accord- 
ingly, the plants are to be set exactly in the direction 
of the poles, the line must therefore be placed on the op- 
posite side to that where the planters are to fix them~- 
selves when performing the work. The planting is most 
conveniently carried on from the left hand to the right, 
and when the hedge is planted upon a declivity the 
planters will find it easiest to have their faces toward 
the uphill side. A quantity of the Plants having been 
Rroveht to the spot, as many labourers as are employ- 
ed in the business are to take a handful of them, and 
being distributed along the line at nearly equal distan-. 
ces from each other, and each one with his own hand- 
ful of plants laid at his left side, one of the plants is 
placed upright in the trench with its roots spread in the 
bottom thereof, and held by the left hand at a little dis- 
tance from the line ; as much mould is to be drawn over 
the roots of the plant by the right hand as to keep it 
steady in its place; another plant is then to be set in 
the same manner about five inches from the former, or 
at whatever distance has been determined upon;* the 
* Where hogs are permitted to go at large, the distance 
ef the plants from each other may be from four to six inches, 
according to the weakness or strength of the soil; the better 
the soil is the wider they may be sete Where these animals 
