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drills a foot asunder. Sometimes when Hedge-shrubs are Evergreen Holly; 



hedges are designed for middle fences Yew; Laurel ; Laurustinus; Phillyrea; 



to divide fields, a two-sided bank is Alaternus; Bay; and Evergreen Oak : 



raised a yard high, and as broad at top, but the holly and yew form the best 



having a'slight ditch on each side ; and hedges for general use 



each side of the bank is formed with 

 square spit turfs from the adjoining 

 ground, and the middle filled up with 

 mould from the ditches on each side; 

 so that when finished, it forms a yard- 

 wide border all the way along tlie top, 

 and along the middle of which plant 

 two rows of hedge-sets or seed, in drills, 

 as before observed. But in places where 



Deciduous kinds. — Hawthorn ; Black- 

 thorn; Crab; Elder; Hornbeam; Beech; 

 Elm ; Lime-tree, and Alder are all 

 proper, either for middling or tall 

 hedges, as they may be trained up from 

 about six or eight to fifteen or twenty 

 feet high, and the elm to double that 

 height if required. Privet is also some- 

 times used for moderately high hedges : 



the whole length. 



"In respect to the trainin 



no ditch nor raised bank is required, as ; and for low hedges, the Rose ; Sweet- 

 may be the case for middle hedges in ^ briar; Syringa ; and Berberry, 

 the interior parts of grounds, especially ! All full trained hedges, in order to 

 in gardens; then the place for the hedge : preserve them in proper form, close 

 being marked out on the level ground and neat, must be clipped, both on the 

 two or three feet broad, dig it along one ' sides and top, once or twice a year, but 

 good spade deep at lesst, and then plant never less than once ; and the best time 

 your sets of any sort in two rows, rang- of the year for this work is summer, 

 ing along the middle ; or if you design from about the middle or latter end of 

 to sow seeds, &c., of any sort at once, June to the end of August, for then the 

 where you intend to have the hedge, ] hedges will have made their summer 

 sow them in two drills afoot asunder : shoots, which should always, if possible, 



be clipped the same season while in 

 and i leaf, and before the shoots become 

 general culture of these sorts of hedges hard, whereby you will be able to per- 

 il must be remarked, that all such as , form the work more expeditiously and 

 are exposed to cattle, must as soon as ' with greater exactness, for regular 

 planted be fenced, either with a stake hedges should be cut as even as a wall 

 and bush hedge, with hurdles, or with ; on the sides, and the top as straight as 

 rails and open paling, for four or five J a line; observing, after the hedge is 

 years, till the hedge grows up, observing i formed to its proper height and width, 

 not to place the fence too close to the ! always to cut each year's clipping 

 hedge to interrupt its growth. The [ nearly to the old of the former year, 

 hedge must also be duly weeded while ', particularly on the side ; for by no 

 young, and this should be particularly means suffer them to grow above a 

 attended to the first two years. And if foot or two wide, nor suff'er them to 

 designed to train the hedge regularly by advance upon you too much at top, 

 clipping it with garden shears, it should where it is designed or necessary to 

 be annually performed in summer; ob- i keep them to a moderate height. But 

 serving, however, to top it but sparingly : to keep hedges in perfectly good order, 

 while it is young, until arrived at its in- they should be clipped twice every sum- 

 tended height: only just trim off the nier ; the first clipping to be about mid- 

 tops of the straggling shoots to preserve ' summer, or soon after, when they will 

 a little regularity, and promote lateral have made their summer shoots; and 

 wood to thicken it as it advances, and as they will shoot again, what may be 

 cut it in also moderately on the sides; called the autumn shoot, the second 

 but when arrived at nearly its proper clipping is necessary towards the mid- 

 height of four, five or six feet, or more, die or latter end of August, and they 

 then trim it close on the sides and top, will not shoot again that year. How- 

 annually, to preserve it thick, and , ever, when it does not suit to clip them 

 within its proper bounds ; in cutting the but once in the summer, the clipping 

 sides always cutting in nearly to the old should not be performed until the be- 

 wood of the former year's cut, other- ginning of August, for if cut sooner 

 wise your hedge will get too broad ; and they will shoot again, and appear al- 

 keep always the top narrower than the most as rough the remainder of the 



bottom. 



summer and all winter as if they had 



