10 On Hedging, 



It is also neccssan^ here to observe, that plants left 

 long immersed in stale unchanged water, particularly if 

 it is in any degree warmed by the heat of the weather, 

 may be injured thereby, being exposed to an insipient 

 putrid fermentation. 



WATERING THE PLANTS. 



After they are planted this will seldom be requisite, 

 except where they have been long detained by the way ; 

 in which case, after they have been refreshed by immer- 

 sion in repeated changes of cool soft water on their arri- 

 val, as has been already described, observe that in planting 

 them the place of every sixth row is to be left vacant, 

 for the purpose of freely passing therein with the water- 

 pot. A parcel of forked stakes, about eighteen inches 

 or two feet long, being provided, sharpened at the butt 

 end and stuck into the ground along each side of every 

 bed, at the distance of eight or ten feet, a line of poles 

 being laid from fork to fork on both sides, so as con- 

 veniently to support a quantity of leafy boughs spread 

 .over the whole to screen the beds from the sun, and to 

 impede the current of air, which particularly in the time 

 of windy weather would be severe upon sickly plants. 

 The shade and daily watering may be continued for 

 several weeks, or until the plants shew by their vigor- 

 ous appearance that tlicy are evidently out of danger, 

 the watering may then be discontinued, and the shade 

 removed by degrees, which the gradual shrinking of 

 its dead leaves will contribute to effect, taking the op- 

 portunity of cloudy weather to remove it altogether. 



