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good shelter in winter., ami is ornamer»tal at ail 

 seasons. The only objeciioii to it is, its slowness 

 of growth ilie first tour or live vears. . 



Hedges of this sort are formed either bv sow- 

 ing the seeds at ouce in the places wlicre the 

 Hedges are to be, in drills an inch aiul half 

 deep ; or bv planting young plants of two or 

 three years old Irom the nursery : this is rather the 

 best practice. They may be planted in one or 

 two rows : though two rows planted a foot 

 asunder, and the same distance in each row, 

 form the thickest and niost cflectual hedge. 

 They may be kept in order by clipping once or 

 twice a year. 



Yew is occasionally used as a boundary 

 Hedge, and when full grown is very thick anil 

 close. 



These Hedges should be guarded by a ditch or 

 bank on the outside. They are best raised by 

 setting the young plants. 



The Furze plant is sometimes used for an out- 

 ward evergreen Hedge, but which makes only 

 an indiflerent one, being apt to die off in gaps. 

 As it grows well upon dry banks, or any poor 

 dry soil, it may be used for a Hedge in such 

 cases: these are raised by sowing the seeds in au- 

 tumn at once in the place where it is desigiicd 

 in have the hedge, in drills an inch and ahalf 

 deep. 



In the general management of these Hedges 

 it may be obsened that all outward ones, de- 

 .•■igned as fences, should have a ditch and bank ; 

 the ditch, Sec. serving as a defence to the 

 young Hedge against cattle, Soc. till it is grown 

 up, and afierwards rendering the wliole ainore 

 tficciual outward fence. When planted on the 

 level ground, they should be defended with rail- 

 ings, open piles, hurdles, or a suke and bush 

 dead hedge, till advanced to the above growth. 

 Where a ditch and bank is intenrled, the ditch 

 on the outside should be three feet wide at top, 

 two or three deep, sloping to one wide at bot- 

 tom ; raising a low bank on the inside on which 

 to set the plants, which may be planted eitlicr 

 on the side of the inner bank, in two rows one 

 above the other, a foot asunder, as commonly 

 practised for quick Hedges, putting them in iii 

 forming the ditch and bank ; or be planted en- 

 tirely on the top of the bank, first forming the 

 ditch and bank, and levelling the top so as to 

 ii-rm a sort of border orbed extending lcr\gway«, 

 planting the sets in one or two rows the Whole 

 length ; but two rows a foot asunder is the 

 most eligible for all outward fences, as they al- 

 ways form the thickest, strongest, and most 

 eflectual Hedge-fences. 



In whichever way the planting is performed, 

 the roots of the sets should always be bedded in. 



in the finest loose mellow mould that can be 

 procured. With this care large plants will suc- 

 ceed in the mo.-t perfect manner. 



Dlviuoit Hi ilycs. — When Hcdgcsare designed 

 for middle fences to divide grounds, two sided 

 banks are raised a yard high, and as broad at 

 top, having a sliehl ditch on eaeii side, and each 

 side of the banlc formed with si|uare «pit-tiiris 

 from the adjoining ground, and the middle filled 

 up with mouid from the ditches on each side ; 

 so thai, when finished, it forms a yard-wide 

 bed all the way on the top. Along the middle 

 of these, plant two rows of hedge-sets, or sow 

 the seed in drills as has been directed. 



But where no ditch or raised bank is required, 

 the place for the Hedge should he marked out 

 on the level ground, two or three feet broad, dig- 

 ging it along one or two good spades deep. Ttie 

 sets should then be planted in one or two rows, 

 ranging along the middle ; or the seeds sown at 

 oneewhereitisintended tohavcthe Hedge, intwo 

 drills, a foot asunder, ihe whole Icniith. For 

 interior garden Hedges one row is generally suf- 

 ficient, either of sets planted or seeds sow n. in 

 this mode, where the sets are of a tolerably large 

 sizeand strength, itwillbepropertoforma trench, 

 in which to plant each row, with the roots all a 

 regular depth, and the tops upright; or, if quite 

 small young sets, they may be planted with a 

 dibble'. 



In the first method, one or two narrow trenches 

 should be formed longways, for a single or dou- 

 ble row of sets, with the spade, by cutting out 

 a narrow trench six or eight inches deep all 

 along, for each row of plants, making one side 

 upright ; then the sets should be placed in the 

 trench close against the upright side, six, eight, 

 or ten inches asunder in the row, witli their lops 

 all upright, several inches above around ; and 

 turn in the earth directly upon the roots, kc. to 

 the depth of the trench, treading the earth there- 

 to moderately firm, to fix the plants in the pro- 

 per position as the work proceeds ; — and if in- 

 tended to plant tsvo rows of sets to form a dou- 

 ble Hedge, make another trench a fool distance 

 from the first, and plant the sets in the same 

 manner and distance ; placing those of the se- 

 cond trench opposite the iuterval spaces of the 

 first row of sets, earthing them in regularly as 

 the others, and treading it down close to the 

 sets, evenly along the surface. 



In trench-planting, the sets may likewise he 

 put in, by planting them as you proceed in tlig- 

 ging the tiench; marking nut with the spade a 

 fool-wide trench, digging out a spade depth of 

 earth at one end, the width of the treueli, then 

 pLicing a set therein close to one side ; or, if in- 

 tended to have a double Hedge, placmg two 



