12 ^n Hedging, 



upon the state of the weather, can only be determined 

 by the appearance of the weeds 



TAKING UP THE PLANTS. 



If, after the fall of the leaf, they are judged to be of 

 ^ proper size to plant in hedges, they are to be dug up 

 with a strong spade, the workmen being careful to ob- 

 tain with every plant a proper quantum of root, such 

 as will evidently be sufficient to nourish it. The plants 

 will be probably of different sizes, and it will there- 

 fore be necessary to have them separated into three or 

 four different sorts as they are taken up, and if there are 

 some that do not yet appear of a size fit for hedging, 

 these are to be placed by themselves and trenched apart 

 until the next spring, when they are again to be plant- 

 ed in the nursery. If the plants do not appear generally 

 to be large enough for immediate hedging ; though a 

 sufficient number to begin upon could be culled out 

 from among the rest, these only may be taken up and 

 the residue suffered to remain in the rows another year, 

 fastening any of them that may happen to be loosened in 

 takhig up the others, by pressing down the earth about 

 their roots with the feet. It will be hard to describe in 

 an intelligible manner, the right size for hedging, as this 

 depends not altogether upon the height that a plant may 

 have attained, but also upon its strength and apparently 

 healthy condition, not forgetting to take the size and 

 number of its roots also into the estimate. Each of the 

 different assorted sizes of the plants are to be trenched 

 by themselves, and are to be carefully spread pretty 

 thin in the trench in a sloping position, and the roots 

 well covered with mould, and also half way up the 



