On Hedging, 11 



Or should the proprietor, from a laudable motive of 

 having large sized and excellent plants, be willing to 

 incur this trouble and expense, the plants may be water- 

 ed for a few weeks at first, although they have been 

 planted at the proper season, and are no ways sickly. 

 In the time of dry weather, when this watering will 

 only be wanted, the water must not be sparingly used 

 when once begun ; for if an inch or a little better of 

 the surface merely is wetted, the plants in place of be- 

 nefit, will be injured thereby ; as the soil farther down 

 at their feeding fibres will still continue dry where 

 ^moisture is most wanted, and that at the top will 

 either do no good or stimulate the putting out of roots 

 too near the surface. In the time of severe drought, 

 therefore, let the soil be thoroughly drenched, if at all, 

 and this regularly repeated every evening while the dry 

 weather continues. But, though in this last case the 

 alleys, in place of every siicth row, will be wanted for 

 the conveniency of passing to water the plants, there 

 will be little occasion for any shade. 



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This is an important operation, and must not be delay- 

 ed at any time longer than the weeds are yet so low as to 

 be hoed expeditiously. A small garden hoe is best for this 

 purpose, the weeder being careful to walk in the row not 

 yet weeded, for his tread would tend to re-plant some 

 of the weeds were he to follow after the hoe with his 

 feet in the same row. The weeds among the stems of 

 the plants are at the same time to be attentively pulled 

 up by hand. The number of times which this operation 

 . is necessary in the course of the season depending upon 



