THE YOL'NiT FARMKJi's MANUAL. 209 



280. In sticking them, draw a line and make the holes with a 

 crowbar, directly under the line, about ten or twelve inches apart. 

 For large limbs let large holes be made, and for small ones do 

 not make the holes so large and deep that the limbs will extend 

 downward so that the lower ends will all decay. If they are 

 planted ten or twelve inches in depth, unless the soil is very deep, 

 they will nourish better than if they were planted twenty or 

 more inches deep. Plunge them in the holes to the desired 

 depth, with the hands, and never drive them. If, then, any of 

 them do not seem to stand sufficiently firm, place a good sod on 

 each side of them, and stamp it down well. After the limbs are 

 all stuck let the branches on them be interlaced, by commencing 

 at the bottom and weaving them back and forth, forming a kind 

 of lattice work. Should the whole seem not to stand very firmly, 

 let long slender branches from the trees of some other kind of 

 wood, be interwoven at the tops. Such a hedge should be made 

 early in the spring in preference to the fall ; and it will require 

 shearing at least once a year, to keep it even, and to prevent its 

 growing too high. 



WHAT KINDS OF PLANTS ARE USED FOR HEDGES. 



281. " The selection of suitable plants for hedges depends, in a 

 very great degree, upon the locality. In some localities one kind 

 of plants will flourish very luxuriantly, and make the best of 

 hedges, while only a few hundred miles distant from such location, 

 that kind of plants will not succeed at all in hedge-making. Some 

 species of plants are not at all adapted to the climate where they 

 are to be used ; while some others, which flourish well in a given 

 climate, are so liable to be attacked by the borer or bright, as to 

 be of no value whatever for hedges. The English hawthorn, for 

 example, has been found entirely unsuited to, m,ost parts of the. 

 United States.* Some plants do not seem, to be hardy enough tq 

 endure, without injury, the extreme cold of our northern winters j 

 and such plants, although they may have a great reputation for 



* Albany Cultivator. 



