On Hedging, 



ment accidental circumstances may render necessary, 

 remembering always that a small degree of moisture, 

 more or less according to the state of the atmosphere, 

 is necessary at all times for the preservation and health 

 of the plants, while they remain out of the earth. 



NURSERY FOR THE PLANTS. 



The soil most fit for a nursery to the young plants 

 of the haw-thorn, is a free, rich, deep black loam, that 

 has previously been in a cultivated state, rather inclined 

 to moist than dry, rather situate at the bottom than the 

 top of a height, rather on the flat summit than on the 

 declivity of a hill, and where such a soil and situation 

 cannot be had, that which comes nearest to this descrip- 

 tion ought to be preferred. A soil that would suit for 

 cabbages, and in a similar state of preparation as would 

 answer well for that vegetable, will also answer for the 

 most part of such plants as are used in hedging. It 

 will, however, be of great advantage to have the piece 

 of ground appropriated for this purpose, digged from 

 fifteen to eighteen inches deep ; if the soil will not ad- 

 mit of more than twelve inches in depth it may do, but 

 less than that would be too shallow to produce fine 

 thriving plants. If the state of the soil should render 

 it necessary, it must be turned up rough or trenched 

 by the spade in the beginning of winter, in order that 

 it may be mellowed by the frost, and also that it may 

 be clean from the remains of former productions, and 

 work free and easy when it comes to be turned over, 

 levelled and dressed in the spring. 



