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the hedge is to be planted. Next, with a shovel, clean out the 

 trench, three or four inches deep, and wide enough to receive the 

 roots of the largest quicks, when they are fully extended from 

 side to side, without their being bent sideways. The roots should 

 spread out as far as they will reach, and all the little roots and 

 spongioles should be spread out to their full extent, as they origin 

 ally grew. Cut off all tap roots smoothly, and cut off the ends 

 of those roots that have been mutilated in digging up the plants. 

 Stretch a line about three or four rods long, about an inch on one 

 side of the place where the row is to stand. Have it high 

 enough so as not to be in the way when hauling in the dirt. 

 Let knots be tied in this line, as far apart as the quicks are to be 

 planted. Set each quick about an inch from the line, at every 

 knot. When two rows are to be planted, the quicks of the 

 second row should be placed opposite the spaces and not opposite 

 the other plants. When three rows are set out there should 

 be two lines stretched, one for each outside row, and the quicks 

 in the outside rows should stand opposite the spaces in the middle 

 row. When the stems of the quicks are cut off, the line may be 

 stretched where the rows are to stand, and a quick placed under 

 every knot of the line. If the dirt is not mellow and fine in 

 every place, it would be well to have a load hauled by the side 

 of the hedge row ; and when one man places the quicks, let 

 another man throw a few shovelfuls on the roots. Manure should 

 never be applied directly to the roots. A few inches of mellow 

 earth should be applied first, and then manure, and then more 

 dirt, when manure is applied at transplanting. The quicks should 

 never be transplanted, when the soil is too wet to be worked in 

 for other purposes, lest it lake around the root. 



269. When the quicks are all transplanted in a workmanlike 

 manner, the hedge is by no means finished. Indeed, this is but 

 a good beginning. From five to ten years, according to the soil, 

 the kind of plants used, the kind of hedge to be made, and the 

 training and cultivation it receives, will require strict care and 

 protection, to render it an impassable barrier to stock. The first 

 thing will be, if it has not already been decided, to determine 



