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and sold, at two years old, for^wo dollars a ihou 

 sand. I mean Jine^ stout plants ; for, if your 

 plants be poor, little slender things that have never 

 been transplanted, but just pulled up out of the 

 spot where they were sown, your hedge will be a 

 year longer before it come to a fence, and will 

 never, without extraordinary care, be so good a 

 hedge ; for, the plants ought all to be as nearly 

 as possible of equal size ; else some get the start 

 of others, subdue them, and keep them down, and 

 this makes an uneven hedge, with weak parts in 

 it. And, when the plants are first pulled up out 

 of the seed-bed, they are too small to enable you 

 clearly to ascertain this inequality of size. When 

 the plants are taken out of the seed-bed and 

 transplanted into a nursery ', they are assorted by 

 the nursery men, who are used to the business. 

 The strong ones arc transplanted into one place v 

 and the weak ones into another so that, when 

 they come to be used for a hedge, they are as 

 ready equalized. If you can get plants three yearn 

 old they are still better. They will make a 

 complete hedge sooner ; but, if they be two years 

 old, have been transplanted, and, are at the bot- 

 tom, as big as a large goose quill y they are every 

 thing that is required. 



47. The cost of the plants is, then, four dollars. 

 The pruning of the roots and the planting is 

 done, in England, for about three half jience a 

 rod; that is to say, about three cents. Let us 

 allow twelve cents here. I think I could earn two 

 dollars a day at this work; but, let us allow 

 enough. In 900 feet there are 54 rod and a few 

 feet over ; and, therefore,, the planting of the 

 hedge would cost about seven dollars. To 



