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nrdcr. Plant close and at regular distances apart. Plant deep, plant 

 firm . 



The most general and fatal error consists in too wide planting, 

 and too much dependence has been placed in the fine side brush, 

 and small secondary branches, produced by repeated heading 

 down to thicken the hedge. Experience proves that this kind of 

 filling in has neither strength nor permanence. Reliance should 

 only be placed upon the principle — upright stems — for strength 

 and closeness, -f Perhaps no cultivator of the Madura hedge in 

 the Union has had longer experience, or given the subject more 

 attention than Mr. William NefiT, of Cincinnati. His late remarks 

 i>n close planting ai-e as follows : " My experience convinces me 

 more and more that foior inches is the extreme distance that the 

 plants should be separated. When every plant grows, as they 

 always should, the stocks themselves make even the young fence 

 impervious to the smallest pigs, and the closer they are set, the 

 more the plant is dwarfed, both above and below ground, and 

 will, when matured, require tlie less pruning. 



Should any plants 

 fail to grow, thej __.J^Sl 



must be carefulh ~~^~ 



replaced by vigoi 

 ous, strong plant'- 

 reserved for that 

 purpose ; this ma\ 

 bo done as late as 

 the first of June, 

 (in a moist time,) 

 by nipping uif tin 

 new growth. IX- 

 aniinc the row ci itic 

 allj'^ in the following 

 spring, and if resets 

 arc needed, use 

 strong, two yeai old 

 plants. Cultivate 

 tlie first season, by plowing lightly, first to, and then from 

 the row, as often as weeds and grass appear, till midsum- 

 mer. Late in autumn form a ridge about the plants, by throwing 



-V HMSHED HEDGE. 



