A WOMAN^S HARDY GARDEN 



when more than four feet, the front edge 

 should be made with irregular curves to 

 avoid a stiff appearance. 



Shrubs should be set out not later than 

 October tenth, and, as they or the hedge 

 would be at the back of the bed, the plant- 

 ing of them will not interfere with the per- 

 ennials that have already been transplanted 

 from the seed-bed. Hedges are so much 

 more beautiful than any fence that ever was 

 built that, in towns or villages where cattle 

 are not allowed to run at large, hedges should, 

 wherever possible, be used in place of fences. 



To prepare the ground for a hedge, make 

 a trench eighteen inches deep, put a good 

 layer of well-rotted manure in the bottom 

 and fill up with earth. When the hedge is 

 planted give it a good top-dressing of manure, 

 and continue this top-dressing, with a little 

 bone-meal sown on the surface of the ground, 

 every spring. 



The best and hardiest evergreen hedge is 

 of Hemlock Spruce. Plants of this can be 



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