30 On HedginK, 



of cultivation and clean weeding will to a certainty shew 

 themselves in the third spring. 



The number of years through which this course of 

 cultivation is to be continued, can only be ascertained 

 by the strength of the hedge, but in general five or six 

 years will be found sufficient. Vines, briars, sassafras, 

 and all other insidious perennial plants, are still to be 

 rooted out from time to time, if any of them should 

 chance to make their appearance among hedges whe- 

 ther young or old. 



TRIMMING OF HEDGES. 



When a new planted hedge has been equalized by 

 the shears, it will require no further trimming until it 

 hath completed its first year's growth, at which period 

 if it appears to be considerably unequal in height, it is 

 to be again reduced to an evenly stature, by a slight 

 clipping after the falling of the leaf ; but if it appears 

 nearly uniform with only a shoot here and there higher 

 than the generality of the hedge, these tall ones alone 

 are to be cut off. The sides of the hedge need not be 

 trimmed at this period, and here it ought to be observ- 

 ed that the lateral shoots are always to be sparingly dealt 

 with, more particularly in young hedges, as upon the 

 extension of those nearest the bottom the closeness of 

 the hedge will a good deal depend. 



At the end of the second year the top trimming is 

 again to be attended to, and the hedge once more re- 

 duced to an equality of height. 



At the third year's trimming, the operator need not 

 tip it olf so delicately as before, but having fixed on a 



