32 THE AMERICAN GARDENER. [Chap. 



and here they remain, always about as moii;: as 

 common earth, until sixteen months after they arc 

 put in ; that is to say, through a winter, a summer, 

 and another winter ; and then they are sown (in 

 America) as soon as the frost is clean out of the 

 ground. They ought to be sown in little drills; 

 the drills a foot a part, and the haws about as thick 

 as peas in the drills. Here they come up ; and, 

 when they have stood 'till the next year, you pro- 

 ceed with them in the manner pointed out in para- 

 graph 40. 



56. These haws may be had from Liverpool, from 

 London, or from almost any port in Great Britain 

 or Ireland. But, they can be had only in the months 

 of November and December. Seldom in the latter ; 

 for, the birds eat them at a very early period. They 

 are ripe early in November ; and, half haws half 

 sand, may be had, I dare say, for two dollars a bar- 

 rel, at any place. Three barrels would fence a 

 farm ! And, as America owes to Europe her Wheat, 

 why be ashamed to add fences to the debt ? But 

 (and with this I conclude,) if there be a resolution 

 formed to throw all lands to common, rather than 

 take the trifling trouble to make live fences, I do 

 hope that my good neighbours will not ascribe these 

 remarks to any disposition in rue to call in question 

 the wisdom of that resolution. Figure I, in Plate 

 IV. exhibits a piece of the Garden-Hedge in eleva- 

 tion, in the winter season. See this Plate IV. in 

 Chapter V. 



LAYING-OUT. 



57. The Laying-out of a Garden consists in the 

 division of it into several parts, and in the allotting 

 of those several parts to the several purposes for 

 which a garden is made. These parts consist o/ 



