On Hedging. 



m OPEN WEATHER. 



When the box arrives it is to be immediately opened 

 and the plants taken out, but if late in the day it would 

 be as well to defer it until the next morning ; when 

 being carefully separated from the stuffing, they are to 

 be laid regularly in small parcels of about fifty or a hun- 

 dred. with their roots all one way. Each of these parcels 

 are then to be washed, by plunging them up and down, 

 or from side to side, in a vessel of water to refresh them, 

 and to clear away any filth they may have contracted 

 during their confinement. They are then to be laid in 

 a trench formed in some secure and convenient place 

 for this purpose, being spread therein, pretty thin, in a 

 sloping position, and covered all over with mould, ex- 

 cept so much of their tops as just to shew where they 

 are. 



If, however, the season for planting them be at hand, 

 they may be returned into the box after they are 

 washed, laying a little of the stuffing over them, and 

 the lid being shut to prevent injury from rats or 

 mice, let the box be placed on the floor of a cellar, 

 where it may remain until conveniency serves to have 

 them planted. But if the proper season for planting is 

 yet at a distance, and the ground happens to be extreme- 

 ly wet when the box arrives, it may, with its con- 

 tents, be lodged in the cellar until the soil is sufficiently 

 dry to have the plants deposited in the ground as above 

 directed. And if at such early season a sudden frost 

 should detain them in the cellar for a considerable pe- 

 riod they will suffer no injury thereby, provided the box 

 is well secured from vermin. 



