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This will be of vcry'great fervic€ to thefe young roots, 

 but ill particular to thole which were not removed in 

 fuiTiiiier. 



Trlnming Enjer greens. 



Go round the plantations of evergreens, and vvith a 

 fnarp knife reduce fuch to order as are of a rude growth. 



Though the taile which prevailed fo much formerly in 

 cutting or training many forts of evergreens into dif- 

 ferent figures, with garden (hears, is now for the moll: 

 part laid afide, yet there are many forts of evergreens 

 that require fome training with the knife. 



Sometimes branches or flioots of a rude growth wilL 

 ihoot out on one fide of the tree, or Ihrub, and advance 

 in an irregular manner a good diitance from the 

 principal branches which form the head ; thefe fhould 

 be cut away or iliortened as you fee it moil convenient to 

 make the head fomewhat regular. 



Let all long ftraggiers be fhortened ; and, where the 

 trees or Ihrubs interfere with each other, let the brandies 

 be fhortened fo that every plant may fiand fair and 

 clear of another. 



Clipping Hedges and Edgings, 



If any hedges, or box edgings want trimming, let 

 them be compleated early in this month j obferving us in 

 the two former, 



I* laming Box EdgiJigs. 



Plant box where wanted for edgings to borders or beds ; 

 this being rather the bell time in the year to do that 

 ivork, for the box will now very foon take root. 



To make neat edgings you fhould get fome fhort bufhy 

 box, and this fhould be flipped or parted, and the long 

 flicky roots cut off, and the tops trimmed even. 



The method of planting it is this : flretch your line 

 alon;- the edge of the bed or border,, and let- that part be 

 trodden evenly along to fettle it moderately firm, and 

 then with the fpade make it up full and even, accord- 

 ing to the line ; then v/ith your fpade, on the fide of the 

 line next the walk, let a neat trench be cut out about fix 

 or eight inches deep, making the fide next the line per- 

 fectly upright, turning the earth out to the oppofite fide. 

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