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pots are properly drained, there is not and bank, and leveling the top of the 

 much danger to be apprehended from bank so as to form a sort of border, 

 over watering; but the plants are sure then plant the sets in one or two rows 

 to suffer if the ball is allowed to get the whole length ; but two rows a foot 

 too dry, and hence the great use of asunder is the most eligible for all out- 

 small pieces of freestone, recommended ward fences, as it always forms the 

 by Mr. M'Nab. In the winter season, thickest, strongest, and most effectual 

 when there is any danger from frost, hedge-fence. Mark out a space for a 

 heaths and all other hardy green-house ditch three or four feet wide at top, 

 plants should always be watered in the which is to be digged three feet deep 

 early part of the day, as they are much each side, sloping gradually to a foot 

 more likely to be injured if watered in wide at bottom, forming a bank along 

 the afternoon. It is the best plan under upon the inner edge on which to bed or 

 these circumstances to keep them as plant, which should be planted as you 

 dry as they will bear without injury, for advance in forming the ditch and bank. 

 wet soil freezes much sooner than dry. Having lined out the width of the ditch. 

 Frequent syringing is also of great use then along the inner edge lay a row of 

 in fine weather ; but this must never be square spit turfs, grass side downwards, 

 done when the plants are likely to suf- to form the beginning of the bank, back- 

 fer from damp, or when the weather ing it up with spits of earth from the 

 is cold and frosty. The principal art of formation of the ditch, and top it with 

 making fine specimens of heaths, con- a little of the fine mould or crumbs; 

 sists in dwarfing them, and forming and then upon this proceed to lay the 

 them into round green bushes. This is first row of plants: first let the sets 

 done by pinching out the points of the be headed to about five or six inches, 

 shoots when the plants are young, and and the roots trimmed, then lay them 

 continuing the practice whenever the upon the bed of turf with their tops out- 

 stems are inclined to grow long-jointed, ward, in an upward direction, about ten 

 It must, however, be done in a judi- or twelve inches asunder, covering their 

 cious manner, otherwise if done at the roots with mould also out of the ditch ; 

 wrong season the flowering will be and then lay another row of turf along 

 spoiled. The proper time is after the upon the necks of the plants, and more 

 flowering season is past, or when the mould from the ditch upon, and behind, 

 plant is growing freely, and before it the turf; and when the bank is thus 

 has begun to form its flower buds." — raised a foot above the row of sets. 



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HEBENSTREITIA 

 Green-house evergreen shrubs 

 tings. Sandy loam and peat 



plant another row in the same manner, 



Ten species, placing each set against the spaces of 



Cut- those of the first row, so covering them 



with more earth from the ditch to the 



HEDEOMA. Two species. Hardy depth of three feet, sloping each side to 



annuals. Seeds. Common soi 



HEDERA. Ivy 

 several varieties, 

 climbers. Slips. Common soil 



HEDGE, properly includes every 

 kind of fence, but the present details 

 apply for the most part to growing 

 fences. Abercrombie says, that "all 

 outward hedges designed as fences 



one foot width at bottom, and trim up 

 Two species and i all remaining earth, throwing a suf- 

 Hardy evergreen ficiency behind the top of the banking to 

 bank up the whole even, in a sort of 

 broad border, all the way along the top, 

 sloping a little back, so as to correspond 

 nearly with the adjoining ground. But 

 in planting for an outward fence, some 

 form the ditch and bank first as above. 



should have a ditch on the outside, three and plant the sets in two rows along the 



or four feet wide at the top, three 

 deep, sloping to one wide at bottom, 

 raising a low bank on the inside on 

 which to plant the hedge, which may 

 be planted either on the side of the 

 'said inner bank in two rows, one above 

 the other a foot asunder, planting them 



top ; that is, afier having formed the 

 ditch and bank, then leveling the top 

 forming a foot of border all along a 

 yard wide; plant the sets along the 

 middle thereof upright, in two rows a 

 foot asunder, and sis inches distant in 

 each row, observing the same when in- 



aa you advance in forming the ditch and tended to raise a hedge at once from 

 bank, or may be planted entirely on the seed sowed where you design the hedge 

 top of the bank, first forming the ditch | to be, sowing them along the top in 



