132 ON WATEU PLANTS. 



planted ; but old plans are so sweet they cannot be dispensed with 

 or laid aside ; notwithstanding I did prevail on him to leave about 

 three rods uncut. The proprietor of it was so dissatisfied with it, it 

 not looking so green as the other, that he wanted it cut down at Mid- 

 summer; I told him to have patience with it; last spring it was cut 

 down, now it is delightful to see how many eyes it broke, also the 

 long clear shoots ; it will beat the other part which was cut down by 

 far. A horse bit off the tops of a small portion of it at Midsummer, 

 this is what some persons would have done as a summer clipping, 

 but this part looks miserable in comparison with the other. Another 

 part of it is contiguous to another hedge, this is miserable in appear- 

 ance, showing what the hedge has done by robbing of light and also 

 food. 



I head no fresh-planted deciduous trees the first year of planting, 

 except Peaches and Apricots, and these very long to what most per- 

 sons do, except some near the bottom of the tree, which I head very 

 short, to preserve the bottom with young wood. 



A gardener five years ago had some Peach trees of me ; when he 

 had them in his hand he said, " Where would you head these;" I 

 replied, " So and so ;" he said it was very long, but he would head 

 some on my plan and some on his own ; last year he told me those 

 he headed long were twice the trees the others were, he would never 

 head short any more to establish trees. 



ARTICLE VI. 



ON WATER PLANTS. 



BY A CULTIVATOR. 



The beautiful flowers of some of the water plants do at least equal, 

 if not surpass, many of our most curious land plants, and especially 

 those in the West Indies ; I am persuaded many curious persons 

 would have made plantations of them if they had known how to have 

 done it ; but though America exceeds us, yet we are not without 

 them in England, as the water Lilies and Ranunculuses of several 

 kinds, that are so frequently found in our rivers and ponds, and 

 especially in Cambridgeshire where there is a great variety. 



Water plants may be cultivated in gardens, although there are 



