SECT. IX. OF SCRUBS, SHRUBBERIES, &C. 1 1J 



the edge may be planted aconiics, Jnow-drops, 

 r, primrofes, violets, polyanthujes, hepuiicas, yuood 



wards the 

 crocuj]': 



ancmonies, daffodils, cowflips, &c In open 1'hrubberies 

 an edging of Jlrawberries is proper, and the hautboy 

 preferable, on account of its fuperior (how when in 

 flower; but in thefe iituations the wood ftrawberry is 

 more commonly planted, as it will produce fruit with 

 lefs fun and air than any other fort. 



The -management of a plantation of fhrubs comes next 

 to he conlidered. It mould be kept clean, or much of 

 its beauty is loft. Let it be frequently hoed and raked, 

 to give it a frefn appearance, and prevent the growth of 

 piofs, which fp reads apace from the ground up the items 

 of plants, and thus injures them much. The ufual 

 time for pruning and digging about fhrubs is fpring; 

 but autumn (and early in itj is better, if the plants are 

 well eftablimed in the ground, and efpecially when old 

 and full of roots. The pruning mould not be late, 

 (October beftj as feme forts are apt to lie down; thefe, 

 however, might be left .to fpring, or only fhortened in 

 p;.rt : They mould conftantly be kept free from fuckers 

 and luxuriant wood. See pruning of Jhrubs. An autumn 

 drefling is particularly to be recommended as leffening 

 the work of fpring, the hurry of which feafon fame- 

 times occafions fhrubberies to be neglected too long, 

 and to be but paitially attended to. 



The fuckers, or young plants, found in digging and 

 drefling about mmbs, are often left carelefsly on the 

 grouiri, but if likely to be zvanted, ought to have their 

 roots buried as foon as poiTible: Why fhould they be 

 fufTered to wither, beCaufe they may recover? 



For 'hedges about a plantation, (i.e. for the divi/ions 

 of it) the laurel, yew, and holly, are the principal ever- 

 greens? the former as a lofty and open fence, the fecond 

 as clofe and moderate in height, and to be cut to any 

 thing,, the laft as trainable by judicious pruning to an 

 impregnable and beautiful fence. Deciduous divifions 

 are bell made with the fmall leaved elm, or the hop 



hornbeam, 



