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ry, take plants one or two years old and set them at 

 the distance of eighteen inches apart, or, if it is inten- 

 ded to make a thickset hedge, at the distance of one 

 foot. Cut off the tops at four or six inches from the 

 ground, leaving two buds opposite each other, and 

 removing all the rest. This causes the stock to have 

 two vigorous branches the first year. The next 

 spring, cut one of these two branches on the same 

 side, at about" twelve inches from the ground, in such 

 manner that each plant may have a long and a short 

 one. Cut horizontally on the same side also one af- 

 ter another, all the branches, and fasten them with 

 cords or withes, so that they may form a line paral- 

 lel with the earth, and leave the entire branches un- 

 touched. At the commencement of the third year, 

 the plants will have branches to form a hedge. 



The height, form, &c. of a hedge may be regulated 

 accordnig to the taste of the cultivator by cutting off 

 the branches, when covered with leaves, and feeding 

 the silk worm upon them. Some cultivators are per- 

 mitting standard trees to grow up out of their hedges 

 at the distance often or twelve feet from each other. 

 This is doubtless an improvement, as by cutting away 

 the hedge an orchard of standard trees would be left 

 should it ever be found desirable so to do. Rails 

 might also be inserted into the standards and a good 

 fence easily made. 



To make a hedge from the seed it is only necessa- 

 ry to sow the seed and then treat the plants in the 

 same manner as if transplanted from the nursery. 



SOWING BROAD CAST. 



Mulberry seed may be sowed every spring, broad 

 cast, in well prepared ground. The next year, when 



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