On Hedging. 



inspected, and any of them that may appear absolutely 

 dead are to be picked out and thrown aside. The resi- 

 due are again to be laid in a change of the same cool 

 water, and to remain entirely covered therewith for a 

 few hours in a cool shady place. The plants are then 

 to be taken out and the water thrown away, a fresh 

 change being substituted in its place ; they are now 

 to be set with their roots only therein, and so slack to- 

 gether that the air may circulate freely among the stems : 

 as many vessels being provided as may be necessary 

 for this purpose. In the course of two or three days, 

 shifting the water twice or three times a day, the plants 

 will be sufficiently refreshed, and may then be planted 

 out in the nursery as hereafter directed. 



In our wintry climates, the best season for packing 

 up plants that are to be transmitted to a remote dis- 

 tance, is when the sap is in its most inert state, or short- 

 ly after the fall of the leaf. Purchasers who are so situ- 

 ated, will therefore please to send their orders in the 

 autumn, that measures may be taken to have their 

 plants packed up before the setting in of severe frost. 



Plants that have a long journey to encounter, will 

 always be packed in moss, if it possibly can be obtain- 

 ed: w^hen this cannot be had, oak leaves of the last fall, 

 a little moistened, will be substituted. Such as have 

 only a few days journey require no stuffing whatever, 

 but will do very well tied up in a mat or other con- 

 venient wrapper. A box however is always the safest 

 vehicle, as it most effectually prevents the plants 

 from suifering by the weather or being injured by the 

 carelessness of the carrier. Every person of common in- 

 . genuity will be able to supply whatever other manage- 



